Rhipicephalus camelopardalis, 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 : 43

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-FFEF-423F-FF23-F9D8FBF6F83D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhipicephalus camelopardalis
status

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Type host: buffalo camelopardalis Walker & Wiley, 1959 View in CoL , Rhipicephalus

Walker, J.B. & Wiley, A.J. (1959) Rhipicephalus camelopardalis n. sp. (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae ), a new species of tick from East African giraffes. Parasitology, 49, 448–453.

Type depositories: BMNH: holotype (male) and paratypes (a male and females); EAVRO, OVI and USNTC: paratypes (males and females) ( Walker et al. 2000, Keirans & Hillyard 2001)

Type locality: Talek River , Cis-Mara in west Masai, Kenya

Type host: Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi

Current status: a synonym of Rhipicephalus longicoxatus ( Walker et al. 2000) .