70. Amblyomma loculosum Neumann, 1907e .

Afrotropical: 1) Madagascar, 2) Mauritius, 3) Réunion, 4) Seychelles, 5) Tanzania; Australasian: 1) Australia, 2) New Caledonia; remote islands: 1) Indian Ocean Islands of Cocos, 2) Pacific Ocean Island (central) of Caroline (Hoogstraal et al. 1976, Barré & Morel 1983, Pérez & Fontenille 1984, Dietrich et al. 2011).

Identical sequences of the 12S rDNA gene have been obtained from Amblyomma chabaudi and Amblyomma geochelone, parasites of tortoises in Madagascar, but also, surprisingly, from Amblyomma loculosum, a tick usually collected from marine birds (Kushimo 2013, Guglielmone et al. 2020).

Camicas et al. (1998), Guglielmone et al. (2014) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) included the Oriental Region within the range of Amblyomma loculosum because remote islands were regarded as belonging to that region. Barré & Morel (1983) do not include Mauritius within the range of Amblyomma loculosum, but type specimens of this tick were collected there (Hoogstraal et al. 1976), and Amblyomma loculosum is still considered to be present in Mauritius.