84. Amblyomma nuttalli Dönitz, 1909 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Testudines: Testudinidae, sometimes along with larvae and nymphs, but all parasitic stages have been recovered from Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Squamata (several families) and Mammalia (several families); adult ticks alone have been recovered from Testudines: Pelomedusidae and Trionychidae; larvae and nymphs have been found on Carnivora: Felidae and Herpestidae, Rodentia: Hystricidae and Sciuridae, Squamata: Colubridae, Cuculiformes: Cuculidae, Galliformes: Numididae and Phasianidae, and Passeriformes: Motacillidae; nymphs alone have been taken from Passeriformes (several families), and Strigiformes: Strigidae; and larvae alone have been collected from Testudines (unknown family), and Carnivora: Viverridae . Amblyomma nuttalli is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Dönitz (1909)

F: Dönitz (1909)

N: Santos Dias (1949)

L: Santos Dias (1949)

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Santos Dias (1949), Hoogstraal (1956a), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Nowak (2010), Horak et al. (2018); see note below

F: Robinson (1926), Santos Dias (1949), Hoogstraal (1956a), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Nowak (2010), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Santos Dias (1949), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Arthur (1975b), Borght-Elbl (1977), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Santos Dias (1949), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Camicas (1970), Arthur (1975a), Borght-Elbl (1977), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: see Amblyomma marmoreum for a discussion of additional problems attending identification of species in the Amblyomma marmoreum group, to which Amblyomma nuttalli belongs. Voltzit and Keirans (2003) describe a pattern of male scutal ornamentation in Amblyomma nuttalli that differs from the descriptions of other authors above, but this character varies greatly in the Amblyomma marmoreum group.