Amblyomma fimbriatum Koch, 1844a

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 : 46

40. Amblyomma fimbriatum Koch, 1844a .

Australasian: 1) Australia, 2) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line), 3) Papua New Guinea, 4) Solomon Islands; Oriental: 1) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 2) Malaysia, 3) Philippines ( Kohls 1950b, Wilson 1969, Kaufman 1972, Santos Dias 1993b, Durden et al. 2008, Owen 2011, Petney et al. 2019).

Records of Amblyomma fimbriatum have been published under the names Aponomma ecinctum and Aponomma simplex , which are synonyms of Amblyomma fimbriatum ( Guglielmone & Nava 2014) , as well as Aponomma fimbriatum . Robinson (1926) and Anastos (1950) stated that Amblyomma fimbriatum is a synonym of Amblyomma helvolum , an opinion rejected by Kohls (1957c). Voltzit & Keirans (2002) also listed Amblyomma fimbriatum as a synonym of Amblyomma helvolum , a clearly refutable statement considering the morphological differences between these species, as discussed in Petney et al. (2019) and Guglielmone et al. (2020).