Amblyomma hebraeum 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 : 98

54. Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders), Aves (several orders), and Testudines : Testudinidae ; adults and immature stages have been recovered from Squamata : Gerrhosauridae , Varanidae and Viperidae . Amblyomma hebraeum is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Koch (1844a), under the name Amblyomma annulipes , a synonym of Amblyomma hebraeum

N: Howard (1908)

L: Howard (1908)

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Neumann (1899) , Howard (1908), Dönitz (1909, 1910a), Robinson (1926), Theiler (1943b), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Howard (1908), Dönitz (1909, 1910a), Robinson (1926), Theiler (1943b), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Theiler (1943b), Arthur (1973), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Bedford (1934), Theiler (1943b), Arthur (1973), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: Ghosh et al. (2007) list Amblyomma hebraeum as an Oriental species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) consider it an Afrotropical tick, with numerous records from outside its natural range due to misidentifications or accidental introductions that did not result in the establishment of local populations.