Amblyomma sabanerae Stoll, 1894

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 : 118-119

110. Amblyomma sabanerae Stoll, 1894 .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Testudines : Geoemydidae , while larvae and nymphs have also mostly been collected from Geoemydidae , although immature stages have been taken from several other hosts listed below. Additionally, all parasitic stages have been found on Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae (adult ticks rarely). Adults and nymphs have been recovered from Testudines : Kinosternidae ; adult ticks alone have been taken from Testudines : Emydidae , and Squamata : Boidae and Iguanidae ; immature stages have been collected from Carnivora : Procyonidae , Rodentia : Cricetidae and Echimyidae , Columbiformes : Columbidae , Passeriformes (several families), and Anura : Bufonidae ( Fairchild et al. 1966, Ogrzewalska et al. 2015, Esser et al. 2016 a, Miller et al. 2016, Bermúdez et al. 2018, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018). Amblyomma sabanerae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1937b)

F: Stoll (1894)

N: undescribed

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Voltzit (2007), Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2011), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

F: Neumann (1899) , Santos Dias (1989b), Robinson (1926), Voltzit (2007), Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2011), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

Note: see Amblyomma humerale for its probable confusion with Amblyomma crassum and Amblyomma sabanerae .