Archaeocroton sphenodonti ( Dumbleton, 1943 )

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 : 130-131

1. Archaeocroton sphenodonti ( Dumbleton, 1943) .

An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Rhynchocephalia : Sphenodontidae , with a rare record of adults from Squamata : Gekkonidae . There are no records of Archaeocroton sphenodonti causing human parasitism.

M: Dumbleton (1943), under the name Aponomma sphenodonti and given its current status in Barker and Burger (2018); see note below

F: Dumbleton (1943), under the name Aponomma sphenodonti

N: Dumbleton (1943), under the name Aponomma sphenodonti

L: Dumbleton (1943), under the name Aponomma sphenodonti

Redescriptions

M: Dumbleton (1953), Kaufman (1972) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma sphenodonti, Nowak (2010)

F: Dumbleton (1953), Kaufman (1972) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma sphenodonti, Siuda

(1972) under the name Aponomma ludovici , a synonym of Archaeocroton sphenodonti, Nowak (2010)

N: Dumbleton (1953) under the name Aponomma sphenodonti, Siuda (1972) under the name Aponomma ludovici L: Dumbleton (1953) under the name Aponomma sphenodonti, Siuda (1972) under the name Aponomma ludovici Note: Miller et al. (2007) and several other workers found molecular evidence for the inclusion of Archaeocroton (under the name Amblyomma sphenodonti ) in a new genus of Ixodidae . Those molecular results support morphological studies showing that this species is an atypical member of the former genus Aponomma ( Kaufman, 1972) , and the study of Klompen et al. (2002), where “primitive Aponomma ” ( Amblyomma elaphense and Amblyomma sphenodonti at that time) were provisionally included in the genus Amblyomma . Recently, Barker and Burger (2018) created the monotypic genus Archaeocroton for Archaeocroton sphenodonti , which is treated as a probable basal group for the genus Bothriocroton .