Amblyomma latum 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 : 103

67. Amblyomma latum Koch, 1844a .

An Afrotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Squamata (several families), but adult ticks alone have rarely been collected from Anura : Bufonidae , Testudines : Testudinidae , Rodentia : Hystricidae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae ; immature stages have also been found on Rodentia : Muridae . Amblyomma latum is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1901) , under the name Aponomma ochraceum , a synonym of Amblyomma latum , but see note below

F: Koch (1844a, page 231, not to be confused with Hyalomma latum Koch, 1844a , page 221)

N: Howard (1908), under the name Aponomma laeve capense

L: Howard (1908), under the name Aponomma laeve capense

Redescriptions

M: Theiler (1945b), Santos Dias (1948a), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Kaufman (1972), Saratsiotis (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma latum, Nowak (2010) , Horak et al. (2018); see note below

F: Koch (1847), Theiler (1945b), Santos Dias (1948a), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Kaufman (1972), Saratsiotis (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma latum, Venzal et al. (2007) , Nowak (2010), Horak et al. (2018); see note below

N: Theiler (1945b), Santos Dias (1948a) and Saratsiotis (1972), all under the name Aponomma latum, Nowak (2010)

L: Theiler (1945b), Santos Dias (1948a) and Saratsiotis (1972), all under the name Aponomma latum, Nowak (2010)

Note: Guglielmone and Nava (2014) followed Robinson (1926) in considering Hyalomma latum Koch, 1844a (page 221) and also in Koch (1847, pages 39 and 40, figure 14) a synonym of Amblyomma latum , but Hyalomma latum is, in fact, a synonym of Amblyomma sylvaticum , as proposed by Neumann (1901) , Bequaert (1932) and Camicas et al. (1998). Bequaert (1932) also states that the ornate Amblyomma latum nymph in Warburton (1927) corresponds to the nymph of Amblyomma sylvaticum , all named under the former genus Aponomma . Neumann (1901) allegedly described the male of Aponomma latum , but, in fact, he described the male of Amblyomma javanense , as explained in Kaufman (1972) using the former genus Aponomma to name these species.