112. Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 .

A Neotropical species whose adults and nymphs are usually found on Mammalia (several orders). All parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Carnivora: Canidae, Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae, Perissodactyla: Equidae, and Cariamiformes: Cariamidae; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders); adults alone have been taken from Struthioniformes: Rheidae, and Testudines: Chelidae; nymphs and larvae have been found on Galliformes: Cracidae; nymphs alone have been collected from Rodentia (several families), and Aves (several orders); while larvae alone have been recovered from Passeriformes: Cardinalidae and Thraupidae (Kluyber et. al. 2016, Luz et al. 2017 a, Martins et al. 2017, Sousa et al. 2017, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Tarragona et al. 2018, Barbieri et al. 2019). Amblyomma sculptum is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Berlese (1888)

F: Berlese (1888)

N: Martins et al. (2010), under the name Amblyomma cajennense, as explained in Martins et al. (2014)

L: Famadas et al. (1997), as explained in Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

Redescriptions

M: Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014a, 2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

F: Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014a, 2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

N: Martins et al. (2014), Nava et al. (2017)

L: none

Note: see Amblyomma cajennense for the composition of the species group to which Amblyomma sculptum belongs and a discussion of the problems attending this species’ morphological diagnosis. Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) stressed the difficulties involved in morphologically separating the males and females of Amblyomma sculptum and Amblyomma cajennense sensu stricto . Rodríguez et al. (2019) present a figure of the male of Amblyomma sculptum, but the depicted tick belongs to another species of Amblyomma . Vogel et al. (2018) allegedly found specimens of Amblyomma sculptum in Nicaragua; that record, here considered a misidentification, was subsequently corrected in the online version of their paper.