Amblyomma testudinarium Koch, 1844a

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 : 123

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4583221

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FF93-FFB8-FF07-FD71679ACDA6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Amblyomma testudinarium Koch, 1844a
status

 

122. Amblyomma testudinarium Koch, 1844a View in CoL .

An Oriental species with some records from the Palearctic Region and even a few from the Australasian Region, whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Suidae . All parasitic stages of Amblyomma testudinarium have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), and Squamata : Varanidae ; adult ticks alone have been recovered from Testudines : Emydidae and Testudinidae , and Squamata : Pythonidae ; immature stages have been found on Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae , Galliformes : Phasianidae , Passeriformes : Corvidae , Anura : Microhylidae , and Squamata : Colubridae and Viperidae . Amblyomma testudinarium is a very frequent parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Koch (1844a), under the name Amblyomma infestum

N: Sharif (1928)

L: Sugimoto (1937c); see note below

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Neumann (1899) , Robinson (1926), Sharif (1928), Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Nakamura and Yajima (1937), Itagaki et al. (1944, 1959), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015), Sun et al. (2016), Chao et al. (2017)

F: Neumann (1899) , Robinson (1926), Sharif (1928), Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Nakamura and Yajima (1937), Itagaki et al. (1944, 1959), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Keegan and Toshioka (1957), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yamauchi and Takada (2015), Sun et al. (2016), Chao et al. (2017)

N: Sugimoto (1937c), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Fujita and Takada (2007), Takahashi et al. (2011); see note below

Note: Yamaguti et al. (1971) questioned reports of larvae of Amblyomma testudinarium collected from anuran hosts in Sugimoto (1937a, b); however, the larval description of this species in Sugimoto (1937c) was based on specimens hatched from eggs laid by a female Amblyomma testudinarium collected on a buffalo, and this description is therefore treated here as valid. The larva of Amblyomma sp. 1 in Kadarsan (1971) is most probably Amblyomma testudinarium , but that author believes that comparison with laboratory-reared material is needed in order to confirm the specific diagnosis. Chao et al. (2017) found molecular differences between Taiwan and Japanese specimens of Amblyomma testudinarium and those from Thailand, indicating that such samples may represent different taxa, a hypothesis supported by Guglielmone et al. (2017).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Amblyomma

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