Amblyomma oblongoguttatum 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 : 56

85. Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, 1844a .

Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north); Neotropical: 1) Belize, 2) Bolivia, 3) Brazil, 4) Colombia, 5) Costa Rica, 6) French Guiana, 7) Guatemala, 8) Guyana, 9) Mexico (south), 10) Nicaragua, 11) Panama, 12) Peru, 13) Suriname, 14) Venezuela ( Jones et al. 1972, Keirans 1985 b, Monroy Lefebre & Cajas González 1988, Mendoza-Uribe & Chávez-Chorocco 2004, Alvarez et al. 2005, Labruna et al. 2005b, Polsomboon et al. 2017, Binetruy et al. 2019, Rodríguez et al. 2019, Guglielmone et al. 2021).

Some records of Amblyomma oblongoguttatum have been published under the names Amblyomma darlingi and Amblyomma vittatum , synonyms of Amblyomma oblongoguttatum in Guglielmone & Nava (2014).

Camicas et al. (1998) stated that Amblyomma oblongoguttatum is a Neotropical species. But while most records of this tick are from the Neotropics, Amblyomma oblongoguttatum has also been recorded from the Nearctic portion of Mexico ( Hoffmann 1962, Keirans & Brewster 1981).

Kassiri & Nasirian (2021) and Nasirian & Zahirnia (2021) erroneously listed Amblyomma oblongoguttatum as having been found in Argentina.

More than one species may exist under the name Amblyomma oblongoguttatum because Lopes et al. (2016) found important molecular differences between populations from Belize and Brazil, while Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2020) observed molecular differences between a Mexican population and ticks collected in Brazil and Belize.