121. Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844a .

A Nearctic and Neotropical species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Tayassuidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae; adults alone have been col-lected from Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae; nymphs alone have been recovered from Carnivora: Canidae, Rodentia: Sciuridae, Galliformes: Phasianidae, and Passeriformes: Mimidae and Turdidae . Amblyomma tenellum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Kohls (1958), under the name Amblyomma imitator, a synonym of Amblyomma tenellum

N: Kohls (1958), under the name Amblyomma imitator

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Kohls (1958) and Voltzit (2007), all under the name Amblyomma imitator, Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014c)

F: Voltzit (2007), under the name Amblyomma imitator

N: Keirans and Durden (1998), under the name Amblyomma imitator

Note: Amblyomma tenellum had been considered a synonym of Amblyomma cajennense, but a recent examination of type specimens revealed that Amblyomma tenellum is in fact a valid species and Amblyomma imitator is its synonym, as discussed in Nava et al. (2014c).