Amblyomma tigrinum 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 : 124

124. Amblyomma tigrinum Koch, 1844a .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Canidae ; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Rodentia : Caviidae . Adults and immature stages have also been recovered from Canidae and Caviidae , as well as from Carnivora : Felidae , and Rodentia : Cricetidae ; adult ticks alone have been found on Artiodactyla (several families), and Perissodactyla : Equidae ; nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Aves (several orders), and larvae alone have been found on Rodentia : Muridae . Amblyomma tigrinum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Koch (1844a), under the name Amblyomma rubripes , a synonym of Amblyomma tigrinum

N: Estrada-Peña et al. (1993)

L: Estrada-Peña et al. (1993)

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Kohls (1956b), Floch and Fauran (1958), Estrada-Peña et al. (2005), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

F: Kohls (1956b), Floch and Fauran (1958), Estrada-Peña et al. (2005), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

N: Estrada-Peña et al. (2005), Martins et al. (2010, 2014), Nava et al. (2017)

L: Estrada-Peña et al. (2005)

Note: see Amblyomma maculatum for a discussion of the confusion that exists between adults of that species and those of Amblyomma tigrinum and Amblyomma triste . Identifying the immature stages is even more problematic; larvae are almost impossible to separate using morphological characters, as discussed in Estrada-Peña et al. (2005). Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. (2020) supported the presence of Amblyomma tigrinum in Colombia based on a reference that provides no morphological or molecular diagnosis; therefore, that country is provisionally excluded from the range of this tick.