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Zebra Tick
Rhipicephalus pulchellus
Rhipicephalus pulchellus (zebra tick or yellow back tick) is a species of hard tick. It is a very common tick in the Horn of Africa, with a habitat of the Rift Valley and eastward. It hosts upon a wide variety of species, including livestock, wild mammals, and humans, and can be a vector for various pathogens. The adult male has a distinctive black and ivory ornamentation on its scutum.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 604850.