Amblyomma orlovi ( Kolonin, 1992a )

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 : 110

86. Amblyomma orlovi ( Kolonin, 1992a) .

An Afrotropical species ( Kolonin 2003) known only to parasitize Squamata : Pythonidae and that initially was considered to be an Oriental tick in Kolonin (1992a) and Camicas et al. (1998).

M: unknown

F: Kolonin (1992a), under the name Aponomma orlovi and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescription

F: Santos Dias (1993)

Note: according to Guglielmone et al. (2009, 2010b, 2014, 2015), this species is probably a synonym of Amblyomma transversale , and, in fact, it may not belong to the genus Amblyomma . See also Amblyomma transversale .