Amblyomma loculosum Neumann, 1907e

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 53

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.