The scutum (1.57 x 1.43 mm) is longer than it is broad and has an almost impunctate appearance due to relatively few, shallow punctations, featuring slightly bulging eyes located about halfway back (edged dorsally with small punctations) and broad, elongate, striated cervical fields depressed between raised internal and external cervical margins
The capitulum (0.77 x 0.84 mm) features short, broad palps, large porose areas that are longer in the anteroposterior axis, and a basis capituli with broad lateral angles that do not overlap the scapulae
Ventrally, the female has a broadly U-shaped genital aperture with a bulging genital apron.
Walker, Jane B., James E. Keirans, and Ivan G. Horak. The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae): A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511661754.
Male
The conscutum (3.45 x 1.95 mm) broadens posterior to the marginal, slightly bulging eyes, is indented at the central festoon, and features a few moderately large scattered punctations, deep marginal lines extending to eye level, and deep, relatively narrow, curved trough-like cervical fields with raised surfaces between the external margins and eyes
The posteromedian groove is broad, deep, and long (reaching the central festoon), while posterolateral grooves appear as irregular, poorly defined depressions
The capitulum (0.79 x 0.82 mm) features short, broad palps and a basis capituli with long, slightly curving lateral angles (which do not conceal the large apical process of coxa I) and a short, straight posterior margin situated between long triangular cornua
Ventrally, the male possesses very large, broad spiracles extending from just posterior to coxae IV to festoons I, elongate rod-like accessory adanal plates, and elongate, triangular adanal plates with almost straight posterior margins that extend slightly medially behind the anus but lack posterointernal points
The legs increase markedly in size from I to IV.
Walker, Jane B., James E. Keirans, and Ivan G. Horak. The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae): A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511661754.
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