Amblyomma marmoreum Koch, 1844a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 106

75. Amblyomma marmoreum Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Testudines : Testudinidae ; immature stages are also commonly found on Testudinidae , but they are frequently collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Felidae , Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Galliformes : Phasianidae and Numididae . All parasitic stages have also been recovered from these hosts as well as from Carnivora : Canidae , and Squamata : Viperidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Squamata : Elapidae and Varanidae ; adults alone have been taken from Squamata : Pythonidae ; nymphs and larvae have been found on several orders of Mammalia and Aves; nymphs alone have been collected from Squamata : Colubridae and Gerrhosauridae ; and larvae alone have been recovered from Perissodactyla : Equidae . Amblyomma marmoreum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Schulze (1932b), as explained in Theiler and Salisbury (1959), but see note below

N: Howard (1908)

L: Howard (1908)

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Neumann (1899, 1901), Howard (1908), Robinson (1926), Santos Dias (1955a), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Howard (1908), Robinson (1926), Santos Dias (1955a), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Arthur (1975b), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Arthur (1975a), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: the Amblyomma marmoreum complex of species comprises Amblyomma falsomarmoreum , Amblyomma marmoreum , Amblyomma nuttalli and Amblyomma sparsum , and was revised in detail by Theiler and Salisbury (1959). However, Guglielmone and Nava (2014) described the difficulties experienced by many tick experts when attempting to identify these species, and Guglielmone et al. (2017) suggest that this complex contains more than the four conventionally recognized species. Hoogstraal (1956a) described the male and female of this species as Amblyomma marmoreum group. Neumann (1901) allegedly described the female of Amblyomma marmoreum , but according to Theiler and Salisbury (1959) the first bona fide description of this stage of Amblyomma marmoreum is in Schulze (1932b). Therefore, the diagnosis of this species entails a degree of uncertainty, and several redescriptions under the name Amblyomma marmoreum have not been included in the above list. See also Amblyomma sparsum for some cases of confusion between that species and Amblyomma marmoreum .