Amblyomma fimbriatum 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 : 93

40. Amblyomma fimbriatum Koch, 1844a .

An Australasian and Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Squamata : Elapidae , Pythonidae and Varanidae ; adults and nymphs have been collected from Squamata : Agamidae , and Galliformes : Phasianidae ; adults alone have been recovered from Monotremata : Tachyglossidae , and Squamata : Colubridae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Krige et al. 2017). There are no records of Amblyomma fimbriatum causing human parasitism.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Neumann (1901) , under the name Aponomma ecinctum , a synonym of Amblyomma fimbriatum

N: Schulze (1935d), under the name Aponomma fimbriatum

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Schulze (1935d), Roberts (1964 a, 1970), Kaufman (1972) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma fimbriatum

F: Schulze (1935d), Roberts (1964a), 1970), Kaufman (1972) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma fimbriatum

N: Roberts (1953), under the name Aponomma simplex, Roberts (1970) , under the name Aponomma fimbriatum Note: Amblyomma fimbriatum is treated as a synonym of Amblyomma helvolum in Voltzit and Keirans (2002) , a rather unusual taxonomic situation because Amblyomma helvolum is considered a typical Amblyomma possessing eyes, whereas Amblyomma fimbriatum was a member of the former genus Aponomma characterized by eyeless specimens, after Schulze (1935d), who examined the holotype, and confirmed by Kaufman (1972).Additionally, the male and female of Amblyomma helvolum have two spurs on coxa I and a 3/3 hypostomal dental formula, but there is only one spur on coxa I of Amblyomma fimbriatum and its dental formula is 4/4. Amblyomma fimbriatum was treated as an invalid species by Neumann (1901, 1911a), while Robinson (1926) listed it as a synonym of Amblyomma helvolum , a view endorsed by Anastos (1950). Kohls (1957c) noted the incongruence of these statements and dismissed the synonymy of this tick (under the name Aponomma fimbriatum ) as erroneous. See also Amblyomma trimaculatum for its probable confusion with Amblyomma fimbriatum .