Amblyomma crassipes ( Neumann, 1901 )

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 : 89

28. Amblyomma crassipes ( Neumann, 1901) .

An Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Squamata : Varanidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Squamata : Pythonidae , and adults alone have been found on Carnivora : Canidae , Mustelidae and Viverridae Squamata : Elapidae , Rodentia : Hystricidae and Sciuridae , and Scandentia : Tupaiidae . There are no records of Amblyomma crassipes causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1901) , under the name Aponomma crassipes and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

F: Roubaud and Colas-Belcour (1935), under the name Aponomma crassipes

N: Roubaud and Colas-Belcour (1935), under the name Aponomma crassipes

L: Roubaud and Colas-Belcour (1935), under the name Aponomma crassipes

Redescriptions

M: Roubaud and Colas-Belcour (1935), Toumanoff (1944), Theiler (1945a), Kaufman (1972), Teng and Jiang (1991) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma crassipes, Sun et al. (2016)

F: Toumanoff (1944), Theiler (1945a), Kaufman (1972), Teng and Jiang (1991) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma crassipes, Sun et al. (2016)

N: Theiler (1945a), under the name Aponomma crassipes

L: Theiler (1945a), under the name Aponomma crassipes

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) and Kolonin (2009) treat Amblyomma crassipes as a synonym of Amblyomma fuscolineatum (classified under the former genus Aponomma ), but this tick is valid in Horak et al. (2002), Guglielmone and Nava (2014), Guglielmone et al. (2010b, 2014, 2015) and here.