Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, 1844a

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 : 110

85. Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, 1844a .

A Neotropical species with a few records from the Nearctic Region. All parasitic stages have been found on Artiodactyla : Cervidae , Carnivora : Canidae , and Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae (few adult ticks). Adults and nymphs have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), and Galliformes : Cracidae ; adults and larvae have been found on Carnivora : Felidae ; nymphs and larvae have been taken from Rodentia : Echimyidae ; and nymphs alone have been recovered from Rodentia : Cricetidae and Dasyproctidae , and Cathartiformes: Cathartidae ( Fairchild et al. 1966, Guglielmone et al. 2014, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Domínguez et al. 2019). Amblyomma oblongoguttatum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Aragão (1911)

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Nuttall (1912), under the name Amblyomma darlingi , a synonym of Amblyomma oblongoguttatum

L: Nuttall (1912), under the name Amblyomma darlingi

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Floch and Abonnenc (1940), Luque Forero (1949), Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Bermúdez et al. (2018, see note below), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b), Rodríguez et al. (2019)

F: Koch (1847), Robinson (1926), Floch and Abonnenc (1940), Floch and Fauran (1958), Aragão and Fonseca (1961a), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Bermúdez et al. (2018, see note below), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b), Rodríguez et al. (2019)

N: Martins et al. (2010)

L: Barbieri et al. (2012)

Note: Lopes et al. (2016) present molecular evidence to argue that more than one species may exist under the name Amblyomma oblongoguttatum ; this hypothesis is supported by Bermúdez et al. (2018), who named the specimens analyzed by them as Amblyomma circa oblongoguttatum .