Dermacentor rhinocerinus
Description
35. Dermacentor rhinocerinus (Denny, 1843).
Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Central African Republic, 3) Chad (south), 4) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 5) Eritrea, 6) Ethiopia, 7) Kenya, 8) Malawi, 9) Mozambique, 10) Namibia, 11) Somalia, 12) South Africa, 13) South Sudan, 14) Tanzania, 15) Uganda, 16) Zambia, 17) Zimbabwe (Morel & Graber 1961, Theiler 1962, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Morel 1980, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Tandon 1991, Keirans 1993, Kolonin 2009, Burridge 2011, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Olivieri et al. 2021).
Dermacentor rhinocerinus has been confused with Amblyomma rhinocerotis and vice versa (Guglielmone & Nava 2014).
The above geographic distribution of Dermacentor rhinocerinus is historical. The current range of this tick has surely been reduced because its principal hosts, rhinoceroses, have been exterminated in several African territories. The records of Dermacentor rhinocerinus from Chad and Ethiopia are based on Morel & Graber (1961) and Morel (1980), who referred to this tick as Amblycentor (lapsus for Amblyocentor) rhinocerinus.
Burridge (2011) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed Cameroon within the geographic distribution of Dermacentor rhinocerinus, but during the present analysis no records from that country were found. Elbl & Anastos (1966d) stated that records of Dermacentor rhinocerinus from Rwanda are unconfirmed, while the records of this species in Pakistan by Farooqi et al. (2017) and Ramzan et al. (2020b) are regarded here as misidentifications.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Dermacentor
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ixodida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Denny
- Species
- rhinocerinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dermacentor rhinocerinus (Denny, 1843) sec. Guglielmone, Nava & Robbins, 2023
References
- Denny, H. (1843) Description of six supposed new species of parasites. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12, 312 - 316. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484309442530
- Morel, P. C. & Graber, M. (1961) Les tiques des animaux domestiques du Tchad. Revue d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 14, 199 - 203. https: // doi. org / 10.19182 / remvt. 7112
- Theiler, G. (1962) The Ixodoidea parasites of vertebrates in Africa south of the Sahara (Ethiopian region). Report to the Director of Veterinary Services, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Project S. 9958, 260 pp.
- Yeoman, G. H. & Walker, J. B. (1967) The ixodid ticks of Tanzania. A study of the zoogeography of the Ixodidae of an East African country. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, 215 pp.
- Morel, P. C. (1980) Study on Ethiopian ticks. Institut de l'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Paris, 332 pp.
- Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.
- Tandon, S. K. (1991) The ixodid ticks of Zambia (Acarina: Ixodidae). A study of distribution, ecology and host relationships. Occasional Paper of the Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 134, 1 - 175.
- Kolonin, G. V. (2009) Fauna of ixodid ticks of the world. https: // archive. is / CtZk. Last accessed February 11, 2022.
- Burridge, M. J. (2011) Non-Native and Invasive Ticks. Threats to Human and Animal Health in the United States. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 448 pp.
- ElGhali, A. & Hassan, S. M. (2012) Ticks infesting animals in the Sudan and southern Sudan: past and current status: research communication. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 79, 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.4102 / ojvr. v 79 i 1.431
- Uilenberg, G., Estrada-Pena, A. & Thal, J. (2013) Ticks of the Central African Republic. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 60, 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 012 - 9605 - 2
- Olivieri, E., Kariuki, E., Floriano, A. M., Castelli, M., Tafesse, Y. M., Magoga, G., Kumsa, B., Montagna, B. & Sassera, D. (2021) Multi-country investigation of the diversity and associated microorganisms isolated from tick species from domestic animals, wildlife and vegetation in selected African countries. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 83, 427 - 448. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 021 - 00598 - 3
- Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names - with notes on confusions and misidentifications. Zootaxa, 3767, 1 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3767.1.1
- Guglielmone, A. A. & Robbins, R. G. (2018) Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) parasitizing humans. A global overview. Springer, Cham, 314 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 95552 - 0
- Elbl A. & Anastos, G. (1966 d) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume IV. Genera Aponomma Neumann, 1899, Boophilus Curtice, 1891, Dermacentor Koch, 1844, Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844. Hyalomma, Koch, 1844 and Rhipicentor Nuttall and Warburton, 1908. Lists and bibliography. Annales du Musee Royal de I ' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologiques, (148), 1 - 412.
- Farooqi, S. H., Ijaz, M., Saleem, M. H., Rashid, M. I., Oneeb, M., Khan, A., Aqib A. I. & Mahmood, S. (2017) Distribution of ixodid tick species and associated risk factors in temporal zones of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Pakistan Zoological Journal, 49, 2011 - 2017. https: // doi. org / 10.17582 / journal. pjz / 2017.49.6.2011.2017
- Ramzan, M., Naeem-Ullah, U., Bokhari, S. H. M., Saba, S., Khan, K. A. & Saeed, S. (2020 b) Checklist of the tick (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) species of Pakistan. Veterinaria Italiana, 56 (4), 221 - 236.