Amblyomma transversale ( Lucas, 1845 )

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 : 125

127. Amblyomma transversale ( Lucas, 1845) .

An Afrotropical species whose adults and nymphs are usually found on Squamata : Boidae , but all parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, have been collected from Boidae ; nymphs have also been recovered from Artiodactyla : Bovidae . There are no records of Amblyomma transversale causing human parasitism.

M: Lucas (1845), under the name Ixodes transversalis and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

F: Lucas (1845), under the name Ixodes transversalis

N: Lucas (1860), under the name Ixodes globulus , a synonym of Amblyomma transversale , as explained in Theiler (1945b)

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1899), Kaufman (1972), Theiler (1945b), Tendeiro (1952), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma transversale, Nowak (2010) , Horak et al. (2018)

F: Neumann (1899), Kaufman (1972), Theiler (1945b), Tendeiro (1952), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma transversale, Nowak (2010) , Horak et al. (2018)

N: Theiler (1945b)

Note: Durden and Beati (2014) suggest that this species may not belong to the genus Amblyomma .