Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 106-107

76. Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844a .

A Nearctic and Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Mammalia (several orders), including domestic mammals, with some odd records of adults and nymphs from Anura : Bufonidae ; adults alone have been collected from Testudines : Emydidae , and Crocodilia: Crocodyli-dae, and Aves. There are also some records of immature stages from Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , and Galliformes : Cracidae (compilation by AAG, available upon request). Amblyomma mixtum is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Hooker et al. (1912), under the name Amblyomma cajennense ; see note below

L: Hooker et al. (1912) under the name Amblyomma cajennense ; see note below

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Hooker et al. (1912) and Cooley and Kohls (1944), under the name Amblyomma cajennense, Stoll (1894) , Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014a), Rivera-Páez et al. (2016), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

F: Koch (1847), Hooker et al. (1912) and Cooley and Kohls (1944), under the name Amblyomma cajennense, Stoll (1894) , Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014a), Rivera-Páez et al. (2016), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

N: Cooley and Kohls (1944) and Keirans and Durden (1998), under the name Amblyomma cajennense

L: Cooley and Kohls (1944), under the name Amblyomma cajennense, Coley (2015)

Note: this is the only species of the Amblyomma cajennense complex established in the USA, but it was widely classified as Amblyomma cajennense before the study of Nava et al. (2014a). See Amblyomma cajennense for the composition of the tick group to which Amblyomma mixtum belongs and a discussion of the difficulties attending its morphological diagnosis.