Amblyomma flavomaculatum ( Lucas, 1846 )

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41. Amblyomma flavomaculatum ( Lucas, 1846) .

Afrotropical: 1) Benin, 2) Burkina Faso, 3) Cameroon, 4) Central African Republic, 5) Chad (south), 6) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 7) Ethiopia, 8) Ghana, 9) Guinea, 10) Guinea-Bissau, 11) Ivory Coast, 12) Kenya, 13) Mali (south), 14) Mauritania (south), 15) Niger (south), 16) Nigeria, 17) Senegal, 18) Sierra Leone, 19) South Sudan, 20) Sudan, 21) Tanzania, 22) Togo, 23) Uganda, 24) Yemen ( Yeoman & Walker 1967, Saratsiotis 1972, Keirans 1985 b, Jongejan et al. 1987, Santos Dias 1993 b, Terenius et al. 2000, Morel 2003, Burridge 2011, Uilenberg et al. 2013).

Most records of Amblyomma flavomaculatum have been published under the name Aponomma flavomaculatum .

The geographic distribution of Amblyomma flavomaculatum is mostly based on Santos Dias (1993b) and Morel (2003), who regarded Amblyomma exornatum , Amblyomma arcanum and Amblyomma flavomaculatum (under the genus Aponomma ) as different species that are difficult to separate morphologically (see also Amblyomma arcanum and Amblyomma exornatum ) and treat records of Amblyomma exornatum from northern sub-Saharan countries as Amblyomma flavomaculatum . The presence of Amblyomma flavomaculatum in Yemen is based on B ö hme et al. (1989) and Wassef et al. (1997), records that are treated as provisionally valid here.

Several records of Amblyomma flavomaculatum collected outside the Afrotropical Zoogeographic Region are from imported hosts, but there is no indication that this species has established itself outside the Afrotropics.