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

84. Amblyomma nuttalli Dönitz, 1909 .

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.