Amblyomma cohaerens D ö nitz, 1909

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 : 43

25. Amblyomma cohaerens D ö nitz, 1909 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Burundi, 3) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 4) Ethiopia, 5) Kenya, 6) Rwanda, 7) South Sudan, 8) Tanzania, 9) Uganda ( Theiler 1962, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Pegram et al. 1981, Keirans 1985 b, Walker & Olwage 1987, Kolonin 2009, ElGhali & Hassan 2012, Olivieri et al. 2021).

Guglielmone et al. (2020) discussed the problems associated with the identification of Amblyomma cohaerens , stressing morphological discrepancies among authors who have redescribed this tick, which has been widely confused with several other species of African Amblyomma . Hoogstraal (1956a) and Matthysse & Colbo (1987) stated that the females of Amblyomma cohaerens and Amblyomma splendidum are morphologically indistinguishable, noting also that this tick has been confused with Amblyomma astrion and Amblyomma hebraeum . Morel (2003) separated Amblyomma astrion , Amblyomma cohaerens and Amblyomma splendidum based on ecological considerations rather than morphological characters. Consequently, collection data concerning Amblyomma cohaerens , Amblyomma astrion and Amblyomma splendidum should be considered provisional.

The presence of Amblyomma cohaerens in Angola is based on Keirans (1985b), who re-identified as Amblyomma cohaerens a male tick collected in that country and previously classified as Amblyomma astrion .