Amblyomma crassipes ( Neumann, 1901 )

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Amblyomma crassipes ( Neumann, 1901)

This species is found in a variety of ecoregions, but primarily in moist broadleaf forests where it parasitizes reptiles and, to a lesser extent, mammals ( Roubaud and Colas-Belcour 1935; Toumanoff 1944; Guglielmone et al. 2014) in Lao PDR and Thailand ( Kaufman 1972). Grokhovskaya and Hoe (1968) record large numbers collected from a ram in Khadong, Vietnam, but this is doubtful based on the host preferences of this species.

The male and female are described and illustrated in Kaufman (1972, as Aponomma crassipes ). Descriptions of the nymph and larva are in Roubaud and Colas-Belcour (1935).