Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories
Author
Guglielmone, Alberto A.
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guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar
Author
Nava, Santiago
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nava.santiago@inta.gob.ar
Author
Robbins, Richard G.
0000-0003-2443-5271
robbinsrg@si.edu
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-07
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1
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31.
Amblyomma cruciferum
Neumann, 1901
.
Neotropical: 1)
Haiti
, 2)
Puerto Rico
(
Bequaert 1932
b
, Guglielmone
et al.
2021).
Voltzit (2007)
listed a Puerto Rican locality for
Amblyomma cruciferum
as being Brazilian, a
lapsus.
Morel (1967)
treated
Amblyomma torrei
as a synonym of
Amblyomma cruciferum
.
There are morphological discrepancies in the descriptions and redescriptions of
Amblyomma cruciferum
, and
Guglielmone
et al.
(2003)
have suggested that a comparison of
type
specimens of
Amblyomma cruciferum
and
Amblyomma torrei
would help in characterizing these species, while
Barros-Battesti
et al.
(2009)
stated that the two species are morphologically similar but differ in scutal ornamentation. For these reasons, data concerning
Amblyomma cruciferum
should be considered cautiously.