Bothriocroton concolor ( Neumann, 1899 )

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 : 131

2. Bothriocroton concolor ( Neumann, 1899) .

An Australasian species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Monotremata : Tachyglossidae , but adults and nymphs have been collected from Diprotodontia : Macropodidae . There are no records of Bothriocroton concolor causing human parasitism.

M: Neumann (1899) , under the name Aponomma concolor and given its current status in Klompen et al. (2002) F: Roberts (1953), under the name Aponomma tropicum , a synonym of Amblyomma concolor

N: Roberts (1970), under the name Aponomma concolor

L: Roberts (1969), under the name Aponomma concolor

Redescriptions

M: Roberts (1970), Kaufman (1972) and Santos Dias (1993), both under the name Aponomma concolor

F: Roberts (1970) and Kaufman (1972), all under the name Aponomma concolor

N: Roberts (1970), under the name Aponomma concolor

L: none

Note: the female of Bothriocroton oudemansi described in Schulze (1936b, under the name Aponomma oudemansi ) is, in fact, Bothriocroton concolor , as explained in Beati et al. (2008), and this applies as well to the female description of Bothriocroton oudemansi in Santos Dias (1993) , which is based on Schulze (1936b). The confusion between the females of these species was noted by Kaufman (1972), who considered (under Aponomma ) Bothriocroton oudemansi a synonym of Bothriocroton concolor . Nevertheless, Santos Dias (1993) treated both species as valid, a fact later confirmed by Beati et al. (2008).