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Fig. 19. Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Neuinanii, 1901, $ $ : (a) normally developed 

 female in dorsal and ventral aspects, capitiilum in profile, spiracle and tarsus iv. ; (b) small 

 female which was removed from the host before it had fed to repletion both as a larva and 

 nymph. The large and small females (sisters) are drawn to the same scale. (Nuttall, 1913.) 



