Rhipicephalus ramachandrai, 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 : 182

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-FF70-42A0-FF23-F9B4FB6CF811
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhipicephalus ramachandrai
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Type host: the holotype specimen was collected from vegetation ramachandrai Dhanda, 1966 View in CoL , Rhipicephalus

Dhanda, V. (1966) Rhipicephalus ramachandrai sp. n. ( Acarina : Ixodidae ) from the Indian gerbil, Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) ( Rodentia : Muridae ). Journal of Parasitology, 52, 1025–1031.

Type depositories: VRC: holotype (male) and paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae); BMNH, IM and USNTC: paratypes (males, females, nymphs and larvae)

Type locality: Mundhwa , Poona District, State of Maharashtra, India

Type host: Tatera indica

Comments: the holotype specimen was reared from a nymph collected from the type host.