Amblyomma splendidum Giebel, 1877

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 : 62

115. Amblyomma splendidum Giebel, 1877 .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Benin, 3) Cameroon, 4) Central African Republic, 5) Congo, 6) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 7) Gabon, 8) Ghana, 9) Guinea, 10) Guinea-Bissau, 11) Ivory Coast, 12) Kenya, 13) Liberia, 14) Nigeria, 15) Rwanda, 16) S ã o Tomé and Príncipe, 17) Sierra Leone, 18) Togo ( Tendeiro 1957, Theiler 1962, Morel & Mouchet 1965, Elbl & Anastos 1966 a, Aeschlimann 1967, Keirans 1985 b, Konstantinov et al. 1990, Terenius et al. 2000, Kolonin 2009, Burridge 2011, Pourrut et al. 2011, Uilenberg et al. 2013).

Elbl & Anastos (1966a) stated that the scutal ornamentation of adults of Amblyomma splendidum is quite variable, and this tick, relatively rare in collections, may sometimes be confused with Amblyomma cohaerens , Amblyomma eburneum , Amblyomma hebraeum and Amblyomma variegatum . Hoogstraal (1956a) and Matthysse & Colbo (1987) stated that the females of Amblyomma cohaerens and Amblyomma splendidum are indistinguishable morphologically. Morel (2003) separated Amblyomma astrion , Amblyomma cohaerens and Amblyomma splendidum based on ecological considerations rather than morphological characters. Therefore, published data on Amblyomma splendidum should be considered provisional.

Theiler (1962) doubted the presence of Amblyomma splendidum in Kenya, and Walker (1974) stated that there are no bona fide records of this species from that country, but its presence is supported here by the diagnosis of Kenyan material in Keirans (1985b).

Kolonin (2009) included Uganda within the geographic distribution of Amblyomma splendidum , but its presence there was not recognized by Matthysse & Colbo (1987), or by Balinandi et al. (2020), who studied Ugandan ticks, and we tentatively exclude Uganda from the range of this tick.