Amblyomma triguttatum 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 : 125-126

128. Amblyomma triguttatum Koch, 1844a .

An Australasian species whose larvae, nymphs and adults are frequently found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , and Diprotodontia : Macropodidae , but all parasitic stages of Amblyomma triguttatum have also been found on Artiodactyla : Suidae , and Perissodactyla : Equidae . Adults and nymphs have been recovered from Carnivora : Canidae ; adult ticks alone have been collected from Diprotodontia : Phascolarctidae and Potoroidae , and Monotremata : Tachyglossidae ; nymphs and larvae have been found on Lagomorpha : Leporidae ; nymphs alone have been taken from Squamata : Scincidae ; and larvae alone have been found on Rodentia : Muridae ( Krige et al. 2017, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018). Amblyomma triguttatum is a frequent parasite of humans. M: Neumann (1899)

F: Koch (1844a)

N: Roberts (1953)

L: Roberts (1953)

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Roberts (1953, 1962 a, 1970), Barker and Walker (2014)

F: Koch (1847), Neumann (1899) , Robinson (1926), Roberts (1953, 1962 a, 1970), Barker and Walker (2014)

N: Roberts (1970)

L: Roberts (1969)

Note: Roberts (1962a) divided this taxon into four subspecies, which suggests that more than one species is included under the name Amblyomma triguttatum .