Amblyomma parvum Aragão, 1908a

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 : 112-113

92. Amblyomma parvum Aragão, 1908a .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Mammalia (several orders); larvae and nymphs are usually recovered from Rodentia : Caviidae (southern populations of Amblyomma parvum ). All parasitic stages have been collected from Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae , and Rodentia : Caviidae and Cricetidae ; adults and nymphs have been taken from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae and Procyonidae , Cingulata : Chlamyphoridae , and Pilosa Myrmecophagidae ; adults alone have also been found on Accipitriformes : Cathartidae , and Struthioniformes : Struthionidae (captive host); nymphs and larvae have been found on Rodentia : Echimyidae and Passeriformes (several families); and nymphs alone have been recovered from Rodentia : Dasyproctidae and Muridae , and Columbiformes : Columbidae . This host-profile differs slightly from the profile presented in Nava et al. (2017) and Guglielmone and Robbins (2018), because several records of immature stages published prior to their descriptions in Guglielmone et al. (1990) had been omitted, while new records from Cançado et al. (2017) and Barbieri et al. (2019) are included. Amblyomma parvum is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Aragão (1908a)

F: Aragão (1911)

N: Guglielmone et al. (1990)

L: Guglielmone et al. (1990)

Redescriptions

M: Aragão (1911), Robinson (1926), Boero (1957), Guglielmone et al. (1990), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2011), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018, see note below), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

F: Robinson (1926), Boero (1957), Guglielmone et al. (1990), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2011), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018, see note below), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

N: Martins et al. (2010, 2014), Nava et al. (2017)

L: Amorim and Serra-Freire (2000a)

Note: Lado et al. (2016) state that populations of this tick from southern Mexico and Central America differ from those in Argentina and Brazil, a hypothesis supported by Bermúdez et al. (2018), who name specimens collected in Panama as Amblyomma circa parvum . See also Amblyomma inornatum for its probable confusion with Amblyomma parvum .