Rhipicephalus

Engorged female brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus, copyright Felipe Mateo and Cristina.

Belongs within: Ixodidae.

Rhipicephalus, the brown ticks, is a genus of ticks that is most diverse in Africa, though the brown dog tick R. sanguineus is perhaps the world's most widespread tick. Molecular analysis indicates that the cattle ticks of the subgenus Boophilus should also be classified within Rhipicephalus (Keirans 2009).

<==Rhipicephalus
    |--R. (Rhipicephalus) sanguineus (Latreille 1806) K09, ADG91
    `--R. (Boophilus) K09
         |--R. (B.) annulatus K09
         |--‘Boophilus’ calcaratus KK91
         |--‘Boophilus’ decoloratus (Koch 1844) ADG91
         |--‘Boophilus’ geigyi Aeschlimann & Morel 1965 ADG91
         `--R. (B.) microplus Canestrini 1887 K09, H01 [incl. Ixodes bovis H01, R. australis Fuller 1899 H01]

Rhipicephalus incertae sedis:
  R. appendiculatus (Neumann 1901) ADG91
  R. bursa Canestrini & Fanzago 1877 GE02
  R. evertsi (Neumann 1897) ADG91
  R. pravus (Dönitz 1910) ADG91
  R. pulchellus (Gerstacker 1873) ADG91
  R. rossicus KK91
  R. sengalensis (Koch 1844) ADG91
  R. simpsoni (Nuttall 1910) ADG91
  R. simus Koch 1844 ADG91
  R. turanicus KK91

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[ADG91] Amoo, A. O. J., O. O. Dipeolu & L. N. Gichuru. 1991. Tick ecology: on-host population dynamics of ticks in the Coast Province of Kenya. In: Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 461-468. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[GE02] Giribet, G., G. D. Edgecombe, W. C. Wheeler & C. Babbitt. 2002. Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: A combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data. Cladistics 18: 5-70.

[H01] Halliday, R. B. 2001. 250 years of Australian acarology. In Acarology: Proceedings of the 10^th International Congress (R. B. Halliday, D. E. Walter, H. C. Proctor, R. A. Norton & M. J. Colloff, eds) pp. 3-16. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

[KK91] Kamarinchev, B., T. Kovacheva, T. Christova, G. Georgieva & V. Zlatanova. 1991. Studies on mosquitoes and ticks as carriers of alpha-, flavi- and bunyaviruses. In: Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 89-92. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[K09] Keirans, J. E. 2009. Order Ixodida. In: Krantz, G. W. & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology, 3^rd ed., pp. 111-123. Texas Tech University Press.