Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019 Author Guglielmone, Alberto A. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar Author Petney, Trevor N. 0000-0002-9135-4546 trevor.petney@smnk.de Author Robbins, Richard G. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-05 4871 1 1 322 journal article 7890 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1 344f8a86-21a1-428e-ae4f-01ea6082254a 1175-5326 4423340 C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614 112. Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 . A Neotropical species whose adults and nymphs are usually found on Mammalia (several orders). All parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae , and Cariamiformes: Cariamidae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders); adults alone have been taken from Struthioniformes : Rheidae , and Testudines : Chelidae ; nymphs and larvae have been found on Galliformes : Cracidae ; nymphs alone have been collected from Rodentia (several families), and Aves (several orders); while larvae alone have been recovered from Passeriformes : Cardinalidae and Thraupidae (Kluyber et. al. 2016, Luz et al. 2017 a , Martins et al. 2017, Sousa et al. 2017 , Guglielmone & Robbins 2018 , Tarragona et al. 2018 , Barbieri et al. 2019 ). Amblyomma sculptum is a frequent parasite of humans. M: Berlese (1888) F: Berlese (1888) N: Martins et al. (2010) , under the name Amblyomma cajennense , as explained in Martins et al. (2014) L: Famadas et al. (1997) , as explained in Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) Redescriptions M: Tonelli Rondelli (1937) , Nava et al. (2014a , 2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) F: Tonelli Rondelli (1937) , Nava et al. (2014a , 2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) N: Martins et al. (2014) , Nava et al. (2017) L: none Note: see Amblyomma cajennense for the composition of the species group to which Amblyomma sculptum belongs and a discussion of the problems attending this species’ morphological diagnosis. Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) stressed the difficulties involved in morphologically separating the males and females of Amblyomma sculptum and Amblyomma cajennense sensu stricto . Rodríguez et al. (2019) present a figure of the male of Amblyomma sculptum , but the depicted tick belongs to another species of Amblyomma . Vogel et al. (2018) allegedly found specimens of Amblyomma sculptum in Nicaragua ; that record, here considered a misidentification, was subsequently corrected in the online version of their paper.