Amblyomma varium 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 : 128-129

135. Amblyomma varium Koch, 1844a .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Pilosa : Bradypodidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Pilosa : Bradypodidae ; adults and larvae have been recovered from Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae . Adults alone have been taken rather frequently from Pilosa : Choloepodidae , and less often from Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae , Carnivora : Procyonidae , Pilosa : Myrmecophagidae , Rodentia : Caviidae and Dasyproctidae , Squamata : Iguanidae and Boidae , and Anura : Bufonidae . Immature stages have been collected from Rodentia : Echimyidae , Passeriformes (several families), and Piciformes : Bucconidae ( Gianizella et al. 2018b, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018). Amblyomma varium is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Neumann (1901)

N: Martins et al. (2010)

L: Amorim and Serra Freire (1996), under the name Amblyomma varius (lapsus)

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Robinson (1926), Boero (1957), Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Voltzit (2007), Onofrio et al. (2008), Bermúdez et al. (2018), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

F: Robinson (1926), Boero (1957), Floch and Abonnenc (1942), Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Voltzit (2007), Onofrio et al. (2008), Bermúdez et al. (2018), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

N: Martins et al. (2014)

L: none

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2003) found that redescriptions of the male and female of Amblyomma varium in Robinson (1926) , Boero (1957) and Floch and Fauran (1958) showed morphological differences, but Onofrio et al. (2008) studied the morphology and DNA sequences of this tick and consider such differences attributable to intraspecific variation.