Amblyomma coelebs Neumann, 1899

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 42

24. Amblyomma coelebs Neumann, 1899 .

Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north); Neotropical: 1) Argentina, 2) Belize, 3) Bolivia, 4) Brazil, 5) Colombia, 6) Costa Rica, 7) French Guiana, 8) Guatemala, 9) Guyana, 10) Honduras, 11) Mexico (south), 12) Nicaragua, 13) Panama, 14) Paraguay, 15) Peru, 16) Suriname, 17) Venezuela ( Tonelli Rondelli 1939, Fairchild et al. 1966, Jones et al. 1972, Keirans 1985 b, Monroy Lefebre & Cajas González 1988, Need et al. 1991, Labruna et al. 2005 a, Nava et al. 2007, Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2011, Lamattina et al. 2014, Ogrzewalska et al. 2015, Lopes et al. 2016, Binetruy et al. 2019, Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2019, Guglielmone et al. 2021).

Some records of Amblyomma coelebs have been published under the name Amblyomma bispinosum , a tick regarded as valid in Keirans & Hillyard (2001), but it is actually a synonym of Amblyomma coelebs , as discussed in Guglielmone & Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2021), among others, a position also accepted here.

Camicas et al. (1998) listed Amblyomma coelebs as occurring only in the Neotropics, but there are records of this tick from the Nearctic portion of Mexico ( Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2011).

Records of Amblyomma coelebs from northwestern Argentina are, in fact, Amblyomma hadanii , but this species is present in northeastern Argentina, as discussed in Nava et al. (2014b) and Guglielmone et al. (2021).

Enríquez et al. (2020) reported Amblyomma coelebs from Ecuador, but the figures accompanying the paper do not represent bona fide specimens of this tick, and Ecuador is excluded from its range.