Amblyomma dissimile Koch, 1844a

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 44

33. Amblyomma dissimile Koch, 1844a .

Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north), 2) USA; Neotropical: 1) Antigua and Barbuda, 2) Argentina, 3) Bahamas, 4) Barbados, 5) Belize, 6) Brazil, 7) Colombia, 8) Costa Rica, 9) Cuba, 10) Curaç ã o, 11) Dominican Republic, 12) Ecuador, 13) French Guiana, 14) Grenada, 15) Guadeloupe, 16) Guatemala, 17) Guyana, 18) Haiti, 19) Honduras, 20) Jamaica, 21) Mexico (south), 22) Nicaragua, 23) Panama, 24) Paraguay, 25) Peru, 26) Puerto Rico, 27) Saint Lucia, 28) Suriname, 29) Trinidad and Tobago, 30) Venezuela ( Bequaert 1932 a, Cooley & Kohls 1944, Fairchild et al. 1966, Morel 1967, Kohls 1969c, Keirans 1985b, Keirans & Durden 1998, Rainwater et al. 2001, Alvarez et al. 2005, Durden & Knapp 2005, Guglielmone & Nava 2006, Clavijo et al. 2009, GuzmánCornejo et al. 2011, Charruau et al. 2016, Binetruy et al. 2019, Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2020, Mendoza-Roldán et al. 2020, Guglielmone et al. 2021, Polo et al. 2021, Romero et al. 2021).

The morphological diagnosis of Amblyomma dissimile can be difficult, and this tick has been confused with several other species of Amblyomma , especially Amblyomma rotundatum , while some authors, such Camicas et al. (1998), have not recognized Amblyomma dissimile as a valid name ( Guglielmone et al. 2021). Guglielmone & Nava (2014) listed 11 synonyms of Amblyomma dissimile , one of which, Amblyomma trinitatis , is treated as valid in Camicas et al. (1998). Neumann (1911a) erroneously considered Amblyomma dissimile a synonym of Amblyomma cooperi , which in fact is a synonym of Amblyomma dubitatum .

Capriles & Gaud (1977) stated that Amblyomma dissimile appears to be extinct in Puerto Rico. Keirans (1985b) noted that records of this tick from India in the Nuttall Collection are incorrect, and the same can be said for records of Amblyomma dissimile from the Philippines in Neumann (1899, 1911a). Scott & Durden (2015) allegedly found a nymph of Amblyomma dissimile on a bird in Canada, but this diagnosis is treated as doubtful in Guglielmone et al. (2020, 2021).