The 32 species and two subspecies of ticks in the genus Rhipicephalus that are found in Southern African are illustrated and described, their geographic distributions mapped, their hosts listed, and when available, their life cycles, seasonal abundance and role as vectors of disease are provided.
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Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A. M., Bezuidenhout, J. D., & Estrada-Peña, A. (2018). The Genus Rhipicephalus Koch, 1844. In The Ixodid Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa (pp. 287–510). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70642-9_8
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