Amblyomma pomposum D ö nitz, 1909

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 : 59

99. Amblyomma pomposum D ö nitz, 1909 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Burundi, 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 4) Kenya, 5) Mozambique, 6) Rwanda, 7) South Sudan, 8) Tanzania, 9) Uganda, 10) Zambia, 11) Zimbabwe ( Hoogstraal 1956 a, Elbl & Anastos 1966 a, Keirans & Brewster 1981, Keirans 1985 b, Walker & Olwage 1987, Tandon 1991, Morel 2003, Voltzit & Keirans 2003, Burridge 2011, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Sili et al. 2021).

Amblyomma pomposum lacks a thorough morphological definition ( Guglielmone et al. 2020); consequently, the geographic distribution presented here is simply a list of the countries where this tick has allegedly been found, and disagreements persist among authors concerning this species’ diagnosis and range, as already noted by Guglielmone & Robbins (2018).

Walker et al. (2003) reduced the range of Amblyomma pomposum to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, and Kolonin (2009) excluded Tanzania from the range of this tick. Walker (1974) and Matthysse & Colbo (1987) did not recognize the presence of Amblyomma pomposum in Kenya and Uganda, but we are provisionally including these countries within the geographic distribution of this tick.

Farooqui et al. (2017) and Ramzan et al. (2020b) listed Amblyomma pomposum as present in Pakistan, but their statements are considered here to be erroneous.