Amblyomma tenellum 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 : 122-123

121. Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844a .

A Nearctic and Neotropical species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Tayassuidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae ; adults alone have been col-lected from Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae ; nymphs alone have been recovered from Carnivora : Canidae , Rodentia : Sciuridae , Galliformes : Phasianidae , and Passeriformes : Mimidae and Turdidae . Amblyomma tenellum is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1844a)

F: Kohls (1958), under the name Amblyomma imitator , a synonym of Amblyomma tenellum

N: Kohls (1958), under the name Amblyomma imitator

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Koch (1847), Kohls (1958) and Voltzit (2007), all under the name Amblyomma imitator, Tonelli Rondelli (1937) , Nava et al. (2014c)

F: Voltzit (2007), under the name Amblyomma imitator

N: Keirans and Durden (1998), under the name Amblyomma imitator

Note: Amblyomma tenellum had been considered a synonym of Amblyomma cajennense , but a recent examination of type specimens revealed that Amblyomma tenellum is in fact a valid species and Amblyomma imitator is its synonym, as discussed in Nava et al. (2014c).