Amblyomma breviscutatum Neumann, 1899

In the past this species has frequently been referred to as A. cyprium, which is a junior synonym because it was described in the same publication ( Neumann 1899) but A. breviscutatum has page priority (Guglielmone et al. 2009).

Amblyomma breviscutatum is widely distributed in the Australasian (including Australia and New Guinea) and Oriental Zoogeographic Regions, including some Pacific islands, where it occurs in moist broadleaf forest habitats (Robinson 1926 as A. cyprium, Petney and Keirans 1995; Barker and Walker 2014; Guglielmone et al. 2014). Within its broader range it is a relatively common species known from a wide variety of reptile, bird and mammal hosts (Petney and Keirans 1996; Guglielmone et al. 2014).

Within continental Southeast Asia, A. breviscutatum is known only from Thailand (Tanskul et al. 1983). The record from Malaysia by Neumann (1911) is doubtful as it has not been found there since that time (Kohls 1957; Audy et al. 1960).

The male, female, nymph and larva are described in Voltzit and Keirans (2002).