Amblyomma helvolum Koch, 1844

Petney, Trevor N., Boulanger, Nathalie, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia, Pfeffer, Martin, Eamudomkarn, Chatanun, Andrews, Ross H., Ahamad, Mariana, Putthasorn, Noppadon, Muders, Senta V., Petney, David A. & Robbins, Richard G., 2019, Ticks (Argasidae, Ixodidae) and tick-borne diseases of continental Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4558 (1), pp. 1-89 : 16-17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4558.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:71232906-9C90-4A6E-B893-83AC1574C8CA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4541880

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD87C4-FFD7-FFE7-1EFC-DA5FFC54FEC3

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Amblyomma helvolum Koch, 1844
status

 

Amblyomma helvolum Koch, 1844 View in CoL

An Australasian and Oriental tick, this species is found most commonly in montane rainforests. It is a parasite of large lizards and snakes, with rare records from tortoises and mammals ( Anastos 1950; Auffenberg 1988; Hoogstraal and Aeschlimann 1982). Burridge (2011) lists A. helvolum as feeding on humans, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) tentatively reject this as no confirmation was found.

Amblyomma helvolum View in CoL is a small tick that is widely distributed throughout much of Southeast Asia. On the continent, it has been reported from Lao PDR, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam ( Kohls 1957; Hoogstraal et al. 1968b; Petney and Keirans 1996b). The male, female and nymph are described in Voltzit and Keirans (2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Amblyomma

Loc

Amblyomma helvolum Koch, 1844

Petney, Trevor N., Boulanger, Nathalie, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia, Pfeffer, Martin, Eamudomkarn, Chatanun, Andrews, Ross H., Ahamad, Mariana, Putthasorn, Noppadon, Muders, Senta V., Petney, David A. & Robbins, Richard G. 2019
2019
Loc

Amblyomma helvolum

Koch 1844
1844
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