Amblyomma sabanerae Stoll, 1894

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 : 409

Amblyomma sabanerae Stoll, 1894

This tick has been reported in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, South of Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Surinam ( Onofrio et al. 2006; Lopez 2017). Its main hosts are reptiles. It has been recently disclosed on a new host: river turtles, Rhinoclemmys ( R. nasuta and R. melanosterna ) ( Garcés-Restrepo et al. 2013b). Schulze (1937) described the presence of A. sabanerae in Colombia; unfortunately, the host and locality were not specified ( Osorno-Mesa 1942). It has been reported in Antioquia and Choco on Rhinoclemmys annulata and B. constrictor (Lopez 2017) , in Valle del Cauca, on the Pacific coastal plain: Playa Chucheros (3.93228° N, 77.30784° W), San Pedro (3.83337° N, 77.24925° W), San Isidro (3.44972° N, 77.16487° W) as well as on a continental island known as Isla Palma (3.90019° N, 77.35597° W), where samples of A. sabanerae were collected and deposited in the Teaching Collection (CD) of the Zoology Department of the Universidad del Valle (Cali) ( Garcés-Restrepo et al. 2013a). This tick has been associated with the presence of R. bellii in the Neotropical region ( Barbieri et al. 2012; Parola et al. 2013). Ernst and Ernst (1977) recorded four species of the genus Amblyomma : A. cajennense , A. dissimile , A. rotundatum , and A. sabanerae associated with Rhinoclemmys species in the Neotropics. Specimens of the most commonly identified tick species, A. sabanerae , were collected from five species of Rhinoclemmys , including two species of R. annulata from Colombia ( Ernst and Ernst 1977).