9. Amblyomma aureolatum (Pallas, 1772) .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora: Canidae, Felidae and Procyonidae; immature stages, including the undescribed larva, are commonly recovered from Passeriformes (several families); adults and immature stages have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders). Amblyomma aureolatum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Pallas (1772), under the name Acarus aureolatus and given its current status in Koch (1844a)

N: Martins et al. (2010)

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Schulze (1941c), Aragão and Fonseca (1961b), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b); see note below

F: Schulze (1941c), Aragão and Fonseca (1961b), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b); see note below

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

Note: redescriptions published prior to the study of Aragão and Fonseca (1961b) should be considered cautiously because of confusion between Amblyomma aureolatum (sometimes named and redescribed as Amblyomma striatum) and Amblyomma ovale (sometimes named and redescribed as Amblyomma fossum). Voltzit (2007) presents a figure of the female of Amblyomma aureolatum with a broken hypostome and a figure of the male with an unusual spur on coxa IV, but it is not clear that these descriptions are from bona fide Amblyomma aureolatum .