Rhipicephalus pulchellus, Gerstacker, 1873

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 : 177

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scientific name	Rhipicephalus pulchellus
status

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pulchellus Gerstäcker, 1873 View in CoL , Dermacentor

Gerstäcker, A. (1873) Gliderthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden) In: Kersten, O. (Ed.), Baron Carl Claus von der Decken’s Reisen in Ost Africa in den Jahre 1859 bis 1865. Vol. 3. Wissenschaftlicher Theil. C.J. Winter’sche Verlaghandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg, pp. 1–542.

Type depository: ZMB: syntypes (males) ( Moritz & Fischer 1981)

Type localities: Arusha and Uru , Tanzania , and Lake Jipe on the border of Kenya and Tanzania

Type host: unknown

Current status: a synonym of Rhipicephalus pulchellus and its original name ( Neumann, 1897). The current status of Dermacentor pulchellus , as Rhipicephalus pulchellus , also appears in Neumann (1897).