Amblyomma usingeri Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1973

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 : 127

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4583241
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scientific name	Amblyomma usingeri Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1973
status

Treatment

132. Amblyomma usingeri Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1973 View in CoL .

A Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines : Testudinidae , but they have also been collected from Squamata : Iguanidae . There are no bona fide records of Amblyomma usingeri feeding on humans.

M: Keirans et al. (1973)

F: Keirans et al. (1973)

N: Keirans et al. (1973)

L: Keirans et al. (1973)

Redescriptions

M: Voltzit (2007)

F: Voltzit (2007)

N: none

L: none

References

Hoogstraal, H., Clifford, C. M., Saito, Y. & Keirans, J. E. (1973 a) Ixodes (Partipalpiger) ovatus Neumann, subgen. nov.: identity, hosts, ecology, and distribution (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 10, 157 - 164. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 10.2.157

Keirans, J. E., Hoogstraal, H. & Clifford, C. M. (1973) The Amblyomma (Acarina: Ixodidae) parasitic on giant tortoises (Reptilia: Testudinidae) of the Galapagos Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 66, 673 - 688. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 66.3.673

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