Amblyomma vikirri Keirans, Bull and Duffield, 1996

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 129

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4583249

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4-FF69-FF42-FF07-FEED66B7C9C3

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scientific name

Amblyomma vikirri Keirans, Bull and Duffield, 1996
status

 

136. Amblyomma vikirri Keirans, Bull and Duffield, 1996 View in CoL .

An Australasian species, all stages of which are known only to parasitize Squamata : Scincidae .

M: Keirans et al. (1996c)

F: Keirans et al. (1996c)

N: Keirans et al. (1996c)

L: Keirans et al. (1996c)

Redescriptions: none

Note: Keirans et al. (1996c) state that morphological criteria are not useful for differentiating the larva of Amblyomma vikirri from those of Amblyomma limbatum and Amblyomma glauerti .

Keirans, J. E., Bull, C. M. & Duffield, G. A. (1996 c) Amblyomma vikirri n. sp. (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), a parasite of the gidgee skink Egernia stokesii (Reptilia: Scincidae) from South Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 34, 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 01531205

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Amblyomma