Amblyomma pictum Neumann, 1906

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 : 114-115

98. Amblyomma pictum Neumann, 1906 .

A Neotropical species whose adults have been found on Pilosa : Myrmecophagidae , and Carnivora : Canidae . There are no records of Amblyomma pictum causing human parasitism. M: Neumann (1906) ; see note below

F: Neumann (1906)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Aragão (1912a, 1913, under the name Amblyomma conspicuum , a synonym of Amblyomma pictum, Robinson (1926) , Floch and Abonnenc (1942), Floch and Fauran (1958), Voltzit (2007); see note below

F: Robinson (1926), Floch and Fauran (1958)

Note: Neumann (1906) and Aragão (1912a, 1913, as Amblyomma conspicuum ) describe the male as having a pseudoscutum and numerous scutal punctations, but these features are lacking in the male of Amblyomma pictum redescribed in Voltzit (2007). There are no illustrations of the female of Amblyomma pictum .