Boophilus geigyi Aeschlimann & Morel 1965, n. sp.

geigyi Aeschlimann & Morel, 1965, Boophilus

Aeschlimann, A. & Morel, P.C. (1965) Boophilus geigyi n. sp. (Acarina: Ixodoidea) une nouvelle tick du bétail de l’ouest africaine. Acta Tropica, 22, 162–168.

Type depository: ITS: holotype (male) and a paratype (female)

Type locality: Minankro, Ivory Coast

Type host: cow

Current status: a synonym of Rhipicephalus geigyi and its original name (Guglielmone & Nava 2014). The current status of Boophilus geigyi, as Rhipicephalus geigyi, was established by Horak et al. (2002).

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-287 in Zootaxa 5606 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15…