Amblyomma triste Koch, 1844

Benavides-Montaño, Javier Antonio, Betancourt-Echeverri, Jesus Antonio, Valencia, Gustavo López & Mesa-Cobo, Nora Cristina, 2022, A review of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Colombia: The risk of tick-borne diseases, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (3), pp. 397-437 : 410

Amblyomma triste Koch, 1844

The occurrence of A. triste is confirmed for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay and Venezuela ( Onofrio et al. 2006). Adults of A. triste feed primarily on carnivores, but they have also been collected from humans ( Venzal et al. 2003; Guglielmone et al. 2006). The immatures stages have been collected from rodents and Didelphimorphia . As for A. tigrinum and A. maculatum , often mistaken for A. triste , the delimitation of its areas of distribution is uncertain ( Onofrio et al. 2006) ( Kohls 1956; Aragão and Fonseca 1961). The mature stages parasite carnivorous animals and it is considered one of the most common ticks on deer. In Colombia, this species has been reported in Carimagua, Llanos Orientales, associated with dogs (C. l. familiaris ) (Lopez 2017) and deer ( Wramc 1998). There is no current available research for this species.