Amblyomma parkeri Fonseca & Arag

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 : 57

89. Amblyomma parkeri Fonseca & Arag ã o, 1952.

Neotropical: 1) Brazil ( Labruna et al. 2009, Reck et al. 2018, Guglielmone et al. 2021).

Jones et al. (1972), Keirans (1992), Horak et al. (2002) and Voltzit (2007) did not recognize Amblyomma parkeri as a valid species. Kolonin (2009) doubted its validity, but Camicas et al. (1998) treated Amblyomma parkeri as valid, and Guglielmone et al. (2003) considered this tick provisionally valid. Amblyomma parkeri has since been confirmed as a valid species, as demonstrated in Labruna et al. (2009).

Adults of Amblyomma geayi and Amblyomma parkeri have sometimes been confused with those of Amblyomma longirostre ( Labruna et al. 2009) . The nymphs of these species are morphologically similar ( Martins et al. 2010, 2013); therefore, additional confusion of nymphs (and larvae) has probably occurred.