Rhipicephalus aquatilis, Robbins & Nava & Ronai & Chong & Guglielmone, 2025

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FFD4-4204-FF23-FD39FE06FB9D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhipicephalus aquatilis
status

Treatment

aquatilis Walker, Keirans & Pegram, 1993 View in CoL , Rhipicephalus

Walker, J.B., Keirans, J.E. & Pegram, R.C. (1993) Rhipicephalus aquatilis sp. nov. (Acari: Ixodidae ), a new tick species parasitic mainly on the sitatunga, Tragelaphus spekei . Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 60, 205–210.

Type depositories: BMNH: holotype (male) and paratypes (males and females); OVI and USNTC: paratypes (males and females)

Type locality: Kaisho , Karagwe District, Tanzania

Type host: Tragelaphus spekei

Comments: Walker et al. (2000) stated that Rhipicephalus aquatilis was originally treated as Rhipicephalus sp. III by Yeoman & Walker (1967).