Rhipicephalus phthirioides, 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 : 170

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-FF6C-42BC-FF23-FC18FC37FA99
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhipicephalus phthirioides
status

Treatment

Type host: the holotype specimen was associated with Puffinus leucomelas View in CoL or Oceonodroma castro phthirioides Cooper & Robinson, 1907 , Rhipicephalus

Cooper, W.F. & Robinson, L.E. (1907) Note on a new South African tick, Rhipicephalus phthirioides , sp. n. Journal of the Linnaean Society, Zoology, 30, 35–38.

Type depository: not stated: syntypes (a male and a female)

Type locality: Zimbabwe

Type host: horse

Current status: a synonym of Margaropus winthemi ( Walker et al. 2000) .