This dataset includes the occurrence of Rhipicephalus sp in a cross-sectional survey on cattle in Benin in 2011. Four Rhipicephalus species were encountered during identification. Latitude and longitude is provided in decimal degrees in the WGS84 reference system. The date of sampling has the format 'dd/mm/yyyy'. A value ‘0’ indicates absence, ‘1’ indicates presence of a given species in the sample. The data is in a tab-delimited text file.