Amblyomma albopictum Neumann, 1899

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 39

2. Amblyomma albopictum Neumann, 1899 .

Neotropical: 1) Bahamas, 2) Costa Rica, 3) Cuba, 4) Dominica, 5) Dominican Republic, 6) Honduras ( Clifford & Kohls 1962, Morel 1967, Barros-Battesti et al. 2009, Durden et al. 2015, Alvarez et al. 2020, Guglielmone et al. 2021).

Neumann (1899) redescribed and provided a new name for this tick, which was originally named Ixodes variegatus (preoccupied) by Lucas (1852). Neumann (1899) also included Brazil within this species’ range; however, its presence in that country has not been confirmed. Schulze (1941) stated that Amblyomma albopictum is found in Haiti but provided a locality record from the Dominican Republic. Floch & Fauran (1959) stated that Neumann (1899) redescribed Amblyomma albopictum from a French Guiana specimen, but such a record is not confirmed in Neumann (1899, 1911a). The presence of this tick in all three of these countries was accepted in Floch & Fauran (1958), Guglielmone et al. (2003), Burridge (2011) and others, but Brazil and Haiti are here excluded from the geographic distribution of Amblyomma albopictum .

Guglielmone et al. (2020, 2021) listed morphological differences in the redescriptions of Amblyomma albopictum by several authors, and perhaps more than one species has been described under this name. Therefore, the morphological diagnosis of Amblyomma albopictum remains uncertain, and this is also reflected in its geographic distribution, which should be considered provisional.