Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019
Author
Guglielmone, Alberto A.
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guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar
Author
Petney, Trevor N.
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trevor.petney@smnk.de
Author
Robbins, Richard G.
0000-0001-5430-2889
guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-05
4871
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1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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109.
Amblyomma rotundatum
Koch, 1844a
.
A Nearctic and Neotropical parthenogenetic species also present on an island in the Pacific Ocean, whose females, nymphs and larvae are usually found on
Anura
:
Bufonidae
, and
Squamata
:
Boidae
, but they have also been collected from
Squamata
:
Teiidae
and
Viperidae
. Females and nymphs have been recovered from
Squamata
:
Colubridae
,
Iguanidae
and
Phrynosomatidae
; Crocodilia:
Alligatoridae
, and
Testudines
:
Testudinidae
; female ticks alone have been taken from
Anura
:
Pipidae
and
Leptodactylidae
,
Squamata
:
Elapidae
and
Tropiduridae
,
Testudines
(several families), and
Mammalia
(several orders); nymphs and larvae have been found on
Squamata
:
Scincidae
; nymphs alone have been collected from
Passeriformes
:
Turdidae
, and
Rodentia
:
Caviidae
(
Nava
et al.
2017
,
Guglielmone & Robbins 2018
,
Oda
et al.
2018
,
Zimmermann
et al.
2018
,
Gruhn
et al.
2019
).
Amblyomma rotundatum
is a very rare parasite of humans.
M:
Keirans and Oliver (1993)
described a male with some gynandromorphic characters from a laboratory colony, while
Labruna
et al.
(2005a)
described a normal male collected in nature; see note below
F:
Koch (1844a)
N:
Aragão
(1912b)
, under the name
Amblyomma agamum
, a synonym of
Amblyomma rotundatum
L:
Aragão
(1912b)
, under the name
Amblyomma agamum
Redescriptions
M:
Voltzit (2007)
,
Nava
et al.
(2017)
; see note below
F:
Koch (1847)
,
Neumann (1899)
,
Robinson (1926)
,
Floch and Abonnenc (1940)
,
Boero (1957)
,
Floch and Fauran (1958)
,
Voltzit (2007)
,
Guzmán-Cornejo
et al.
(2011)
,
Nava
et al.
(2017)
,
Bermúdez
et al.
(2018)
,
Dantas-Torres
et al.
(2019b)
N:
Keirans and Oliver (1993)
,
Keirans and Durden (1998)
,
Martins
et al.
(2010
, 2014),
Nava
et al.
(2017)
L:
Bárbara and Dios (1918)
under the name
Amblyomma agamum
,
Keirans and Oliver (1993)
, Amorim and Serra-Freire (1995)
Note:
Amblyomma rotundatum
is a parthenogenetic species, but male specimens have been collected in nature from time to time in
Brazil
(
Gianizella
et al.
2018a
); therefore, records of unusual numbers of males of this tick, as in Pietszch
et al.
(2006) and Rodríguez-Vivas
et al.
(2016), without further discussion of such unexpected findings, require confirmation. See also
Amblyomma dissimile
and
Amblyomma goeldii
for their confusion with
Amblyomma rotundatum
.