Amblyomma tapirellum Dunn, 1933

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 : 122

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4583217

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FF90-FFBB-FF07-FA9D67B1CCD3

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Amblyomma tapirellum Dunn, 1933
status

 

120. Amblyomma tapirellum Dunn, 1933 View in CoL .

A Neotropical species whose adults have usually been found on Perissodactyla : Tapiridae , but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders); nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla : Tayassuidae , Carnivora : Procyonidae , Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae , Perissodactyla : Tapiridae , and Rodentia : Cuniculidae . Amblyomma tapirellum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Dunn (1933)

F: Dunn (1933)

N: undescribed

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Voltzit (2007), Bermúdez et al. (2018); see note below

F: Voltzit (2007), Bermúdez et al. (2018); see note below

Note: Voltzit (2007) states that the male and female of Amblyomma tapirellum each have two spurs on coxae II and III, but in the original description of Dunn (1933) only one spur is stated to be present on those coxae, and the corresponding figure of the female in Dunn (1933) shows no obvious spurs on coxae II and III. Bermúdez et al. (2018) describe coxae II and III of the male and female of Amblyomma tapirellum as having one spur each, but this characteristic is not clearly shown in the accompanying figures. Reexamination of the of type material of Amblyomma tapirellum is needed in order to better define this tick.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Amblyomma

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