Amblyomma loculosum Neumann, 1907e

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 : 104

70. Amblyomma loculosum Neumann, 1907e .

A species found mostly on islands near the Afrotropical, Australasian and Oriental mainlands, and remote Pacific islands, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Charadriiformes : Laridae , Suliformes : Fregatidae and Sulidae , and Squamata : Scincidae (mostly larvae on this host); adults and nymphs have been collected from Procellariiformes : Procellariidae ; a few nymphs have been recovered from Artiodactyla : Bovidae . Amblyomma loculosum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1907e)

F: Neumann (1907e)

N: Roberts (1964a)

L: Roberts (1969); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Roberts (1970), Hoogstraal et al. (1976), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

F: Robinson (1926), Roberts (1970), Hoogstraal et al. (1976), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

N: Roberts (1970), Hoogstraal et al. (1976), Voltzit and Keirans (2003); see note below

L: Hoogstraal et al. (1976), Voltzit and Keirans (2003); see note below

Note: morphological differences can be discerned between the descriptions of the nymph and larva of Amblyomma loculosum in Roberts (1964 a, 1969, 1970 ) and Hoogstraal et al. (1976, who used laboratory-reared material) and the corresponding redescriptions in Voltzit and Keirans (2003), especially with regard to the scutal punctations, the eyes and the coxal spurs, raising uncertainties about the descriptions and redescriptions above. See also Amblyomma geochelone for its unexpected molecular similarity to Amblyomma chabaudi and Amblyomma loculosum .