7. Amblyomma argentinae Neumann, 1905 .

A Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines: Testudinidae; adults and nymphs have been collected from Squamata: Viperidae; adults alone have been recovered from Testudines: Chelidae, Squamata: Boidae, and Anura: Bufonidae, and there is a record from Passeriformes: Turdidae . There are no records of Amblyomma argentinae causing human parasitism.

M: Conil (1877), under the name Ixodes testudinis, preoccupied, a synonymy first recognized in Camicas et al. (1998); see note below

F: Conil (1877), under the name Ixodes testudinis

N: Neumann (1905)

L: Estrada-Peña et al. (1993), under the name Amblyomma testudinis

Redescriptions

M: Lahille (1905), Robinson (1926) and Boero (1957), all under the name Amblyomma testudinis, Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017)

F: Lahille (1905), Robinson (1926) and Boero (1957), all under the name Amblyomma testudinis, Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017)

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

L: none

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2003) state that the descriptions of the male and female of Amblyomma argentinae in Conil (1877, as Ixodes testudinis) are sufficient to identify this species, but the spurs of coxae I and IV are not well depicted.