48. Amblyomma geoemydae (Cantor, 1847) .

An Oriental species with a few records from the Palearctic Region, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines: Geoemydidae and Testudinidae, but they have also been recovered from Squamata: Pythonidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae and Viverridae, Rodentia: Sciuridae, and Squamata: Varanidae; adults alone have been taken from Carnivora: Mustelidae, Pholidota: Manidae, and Rodentia: Hystricidae; and immature stages have been found on Aves (several orders), Carnivora: Felidae, and Squamata: Colubridae . Amblyomma geoemydae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1908b), under the name Amblyomma malayanum, a synonym of Amblyomma geoemydae

F: Cantor (1847), under the name Ixodes geoemydae and given its current status in Neumann (1906)

N: Schulze (1932b), as Amblyomma geomydae (lapsus)

L: Kadarsan (1971)

Redescriptions

M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Sun et al. (2016)

F: Neumann (1906), Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Sun et al. (2016)

N: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Fujita and Takada (2007)

L: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Takahashi et al. (2011)

Note: Takano et al. (2014) found molecular differences between Amblyomma geoemydae specimens collected on several Okinawa islands, which may indicate that more than one species exists under this name.