Amblyomma lepidum Dönitz, 1909

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 103

68. Amblyomma lepidum Dönitz, 1909 .

Chiefly an Afrotropical species with a few records from the Palearctic Region, whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but all parasitic stages have been recovered from Bovidae ; adults and nymphs have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), and Aves (several orders); larvae alone have been recovered from Columbiformes : Columbidae . Amblyomma lepidum is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Dönitz (1909)

F: Paoli (1916)

N: Borght-Elbl (1977)

L: Borght-Elbl (1977)

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Hoogstraal (1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Walker, A.R. et al. (2003)

F: Robinson (1926), Hoogstraal (1956a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003) Walker, A.R. et al. (2003)

N: Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: researchers have not explicitly reported problems in morphologically identifying Amblyomma lepidum , but Keirans (1985c) found five species of Amblyomma that had been confused with this taxon.