Amblyomma exornatum 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 : 92

37. Amblyomma exornatum Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Squamata : Varanidae ; adult ticks alone have been collected from Squamata : Scincidae , Elapidae and Pythonidae , Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Carnivora : Canidae . There are no records of Amblyomma exornatum causing human parasitism.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Howard (1908), under the name Aponomma exornatum

L: Howard (1908), under the name Aponomma exornatum

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Howard (1908), Theiler (1945a), Tendeiro (1955), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Kaufman (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma exornatum, Nowak (2010) , Horak et al. (2018)

F: Koch (1847), Howard (1908), Theiler (1945a), Tendeiro (1955), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Kaufman (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma exornatum, Nowak (2010) , Horak et al. (2018)

N: Theiler (1945a), under the name Aponomma exornatum ; see note below

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

Note: Theiler (1945a) states that the nymph of Amblyomma exornatum described by her is smaller than the nymph described by Howard (1908). There are erroneous redescriptions of Amblyomma exornatum (under Aponomma ), as in Neumann (1899) , who considered a number of valid species to be synonyms of Amblyomma exornatum , and such redescriptions are not included in the above lists. See also Amblyomma arcanum for its alleged synonymy with Amblyomma exornatum .