Amblyomma nuttalli Dönitz, 1909

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 : 109-110

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scientific name	Amblyomma nuttalli Dönitz, 1909
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An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Testudines : Testudinidae , sometimes along with larvae and nymphs, but all parasitic stages have been recovered from Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae . Adults and nymphs have been collected from Squamata (several families) and Mammalia (several families); adult ticks alone have been recovered from Testudines : Pelomedusidae and Trionychidae ; larvae and nymphs have been found on Carnivora : Felidae and Herpestidae , Rodentia : Hystricidae and Sciuridae , Squamata : Colubridae , Cuculiformes : Cuculidae , Galliformes : Numididae and Phasianidae , and Passeriformes : Motacillidae ; nymphs alone have been taken from Passeriformes (several families), and Strigiformes : Strigidae ; and larvae alone have been collected from Testudines (unknown family), and Carnivora : Viverridae . Amblyomma nuttalli is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Dönitz (1909)

F: Dönitz (1909)

N: Santos Dias (1949)

L: Santos Dias (1949)

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Santos Dias (1949), Hoogstraal (1956a), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Nowak (2010), Horak et al. (2018); see note below

F: Robinson (1926), Santos Dias (1949), Hoogstraal (1956a), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Nowak (2010), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Santos Dias (1949), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Arthur (1975b), Borght-Elbl (1977), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Santos Dias (1949), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Camicas (1970), Arthur (1975a), Borght-Elbl (1977), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: see Amblyomma marmoreum for a discussion of additional problems attending identification of species in the Amblyomma marmoreum group, to which Amblyomma nuttalli belongs. Voltzit and Keirans (2003) describe a pattern of male scutal ornamentation in Amblyomma nuttalli that differs from the descriptions of other authors above, but this character varies greatly in the Amblyomma marmoreum group.

References

Arthur, D. R. (1975 b) The nymphs of some ixodid ticks (Acarina) from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 64, 423 - 431. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 000748530000609 X

Arthur, D. R. (1975 a) The larvae of some ixodid ticks (Acarina) from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 64, 405 - 421. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300006088

Camicas, J. L. (1970) Contribution a l'etude des tiques du Senegal (Acarina, Ixodoidea). I. Les larves d' Amblyomma Koch et de Hyalomma Koch. Acarologia, 12, 71 - 102.

Donitz, W. (1909) Uber das Zeckengenus Amblyomma. Sitzungsberichten der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 8, 440 - 482. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 11762

Elbl A. & Anastos, G. (1966 a) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume I. General introduction. Genus Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Annales du Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 145, 1 - 275.

Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.

Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9

Nowak, M. (2010) The characteristics of tick species (Acari: Ixodida) transferred on exotic reptiles to Poland. Wiadomosci Parazytologiczne, 56, 29 - 42.

Robinson, L. E. (1926) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part IV. The genus Amblyomma. Cambridge University Press, London, 302 pp.

Santos Dias, J. A. T. (1949) Mais um ixodideo do genero Amblyomma para a fauna de Mocambique A. nuttalli Donitz, 1909. A carraca das tartarugas. Mocambique, 59, 51 - 75.

Theiler, G. & Salisbury, L. E. (1959) Ticks in the South African Zoological Survey Collection - Part IX - The Amblyomma marmoreum group. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 28, 47 - 124.

Voltzit, O. V. & Keirans, J. E. (2003) A review of African Amblyomma species (Acari, Ixodida, Ixodidae). Acarina, 11, 135 - 214.