Amblyomma gervaisi ( Lucas, 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 : 97

49. Amblyomma gervaisi ( Lucas, 1847) .

An Afrotropical and Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, are usually found on Squamata : Varanidae , but they have also been collected from Squamata : Colubridae and Elapidae . Adults and nymphs have been recovered from Squamata : Pythonidae , Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Rodentia : Sciuridae ; adults alone have been taken from Squamata : Agamidae and Viperidae , Artiodactyla : Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae , and Rodentia : Muridae ; nymphs have been found on Anseriformes : Anatidae . There are no records of Amblyomma gervaisi causing human parasitism.

M: Lucas (1847), under the name Ixodes gervaisi and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

F: Lucas (1847), under the name Ixodes gervaisi

N: Neumann (1899) , under the name Aponomma gervaisi

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1899, 1911a), Warburton (1910) and Sharif (1928), all under the name Aponomma gervaisi, Ghosh and Misra (2012) ; see note below

F: Neumann (1899, 1911a), Warburton (1910) and Sharif (1928), all under the name Aponomma gervaisi, Ghosh and Misra (2012) ; see note below

N: Sharif (1928), under the name Aponomma gervaisi

Note: redescriptions of Amblyomma gervaisi (under Aponomma ) in Krijgsman and Ponto (1932) and Toumanoff (1944) in fact correspond to Amblyomma varanense , as explained in Kaufman (1972, under Aponomma ); nevertheless, the spurs on coxa I depicted by Toumanoff (1944) for the female tick are not typical for Amblyomma varanense . Ghosh and Misra (2012) present a rather confused redescription of the male and female of Amblyomma gervaisi that is treated here as provisionally valid. Santos Dias (1993) treats Amblyomma gervaisi as an invalid name.