Amblyomma variegatum ( Fabricius, 1798 )

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 : 128

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scientific name	Amblyomma variegatum ( Fabricius, 1798 )
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134. Amblyomma variegatum ( Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL .

An Afrotropical and Neotropical species whose larvae, nymphs and adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , but all parasitic stages have also been found on Mammalia (several orders) and Aves (several orders); adults and nymphs have been recovered from Squamata : Varanidae and Viperidae ; nymphs and larvae have been collected from Squamata : Chamaeleonidae ; and nymphs alone have been taken from Squamata : Agamidae and Colubridae . Amblyomma variegatum is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Fabricius (1798), under the name Acarus variegatus and given its current status in Gerstäcker (1873)

F: Neumann (1899)

N: Neumann (1899)

L: Neumann (1899)

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1899) , Dönitz (1910a), Robinson (1926), Theiler (1943b), Tendeiro (1952), Santos Dias (1953b), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Uilenberg et al. (1979), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Voltzit (2007), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Dönitz (1910a), Robinson (1926), Theiler (1943b), Tendeiro (1952), Santos Dias (1953b), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Uilenberg et al. (1979), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Walker A.R. et al. (2003), Voltzit (2007), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Borght-Elbl (1977), Uilenberg et al. (1979), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Theiler (1943b), Camicas (1970), Borght-Elbl (1977), Uilenberg et al. (1979), Voltzit and Keirans (2003) Note: Tendeiro (1963) provides a complex account of the morphology of Amblyomma variegatum adults, including morphological variations and comparisons with related taxa. Theiler (1943b) was unable to find any definitive descriptions of the nymph of Amblyomma variegatum , and, in fact, its description in Neumann (1899) is not very informative, a situation that is even worse in the case of the larval description, also in Neumann (1899) , and a commonly encountered problem with many nymphal and larval first descriptions. See also Amblyomma pomposum for its confusion with Amblyomma variegatum .

References

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Elbl A. & Anastos, G. (1966 a) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume I. General introduction. Genus Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Annales du Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 145, 1 - 275.

Fabricius, J. C. (1798) Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. impensis Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae, 572 pp.

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Tendeiro, J. (1952) Ixodideos da Guine Portuguesa. Chaves para a identificacao das carracas guineenses. Lista de hospedeiros e de especies. Anais do Instituto de Medicina Tropical, 9, 195 - 263.

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Uilenberg, G., Hoogstraal. H. & Klein, J. M. (1979) Les tiques (Ixodoidea) de Madagascar et leur role vecteur. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Numero Special, 153 pp.

Voltzit, O. V. & Keirans, J. E. (2003) A review of African Amblyomma species (Acari, Ixodida, Ixodidae). Acarina, 11, 135 - 214.

Voltzit, O. V. (2007) A review of Neotropical Amblyomma species (Acari: Ixodidae). Acarina, 15, 3 - 134.