Amblyomma geoemydae ( Cantor, 1847 )

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 : 96-97

48. Amblyomma geoemydae ( Cantor, 1847) .

An Oriental species with a few records from the Palearctic Region, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines : Geoemydidae and Testudinidae , but they have also been recovered from Squamata : Pythonidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Cervidae and Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae and Viverridae , Rodentia : Sciuridae , and Squamata : Varanidae ; adults alone have been taken from Carnivora : Mustelidae , Pholidota : Manidae , and Rodentia : Hystricidae ; and immature stages have been found on Aves (several orders), Carnivora : Felidae , and Squamata : Colubridae . Amblyomma geoemydae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1908b) , under the name Amblyomma malayanum , a synonym of Amblyomma geoemydae

F: Cantor (1847), under the name Ixodes geoemydae and given its current status in Neumann (1906)

N: Schulze (1932b), as Amblyomma geomydae (lapsus)

L: Kadarsan (1971)

Redescriptions

M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Sun et al. (2016)

F: Neumann (1906) , Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Sun et al. (2016)

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Takahashi et al. (2011)

Note: Takano et al. (2014) found molecular differences between Amblyomma geoemydae specimens collected on several Okinawa islands, which may indicate that more than one species exists under this name.