Rhipicephalus hoogstraali is a tick found in Djibouti and Somalia.Gennadiĭ Vladimirovich Kolonin: Fauna of Ixodid Ticks of the World (Acari, Ixodidae), Rhipicephalus hoogstraali Kolonin sp. n., http://www.kolonin.org/17_2.html#r27, Moscow, 2009. First recognized by Harry Hoogstraal as Rhipicephalus longicoxatus based on an incomplete published description, after discovery of the holotype of R. longicoxatus,Jane B. Walker, James E. Keirans and Ivan G. Horak. 2000. The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae) in A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World, Cambridge University Press, 643 pp. it was described and named to honor Hoogstraal in 2009.
The specific epithet is not universally accepted as valid, because the species was not described according to the accepted rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.Alberto A. Guglielmone, Richard G. Robbins, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Trevor N. Petney, Agustin Estrada-Pena, Ivan Gerard Horak, Renfu Shao, and Stephen C. Barker. 2010. The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names, Zootaxa 2528: 1-28, http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02528p028f.pdf, accessed 28 Oct 2012.
Hosts Rhipicephalus hoogstraali parasitizes sheep, goats, camels, and cattle.
See also Ticks of domestic animals
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