Amblyomma coelebs Neumann, 1899

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 : 87-88

24. Amblyomma coelebs Neumann, 1899 .

A Neotropical species with a few records from the Nearctic portion of Mexico. Adults and immature stages of Amblyomma coelebs have been found on Mammalia (several orders), but adults have often been collected from Perissodactyla : Tapiridae , and larvae and nymphs appear to prefer feeding on Carnivora : Procyonidae , and Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae . Immature stages alone have also been collected from Aves (several orders) (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Lamattina et al. 2018a, c). Amblyomma coelebs is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1899)

F: Neumann (1906)

N: Martins et al. (2010)

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Floch and Abonnenc (1941), Boero and Prosen (1955), Floch and Fauran (1958), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2011), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

F: Robinson (1926), Floch and Abonnenc (1941), Boero and Prosen (1955), Floch and Fauran (1958), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2011), Nava et al. (2017), Bermúdez et al. (2018), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

N: Martins et al. (2014), Nava et al. (2017)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) treat Amblyomma coelebs as an exclusively Neotropical tick, but there are a few records of this species from the Nearctic Region ( Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2011). Keirans and Hillyard (2001) treat Amblyomma bispinosum , a synonym of Amblyomma coelebs , as a valid species. See also Amblyomma auricularium and Amblyomma hadanii for their confusion with Amblyomma coelebs .