Amblyomma quadricavum ( Schulze, 1941b )

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 : 116-117

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scientific name	Amblyomma quadricavum ( Schulze, 1941b )
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104. Amblyomma quadricavum ( Schulze, 1941b) View in CoL .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Squamata : Boidae and Colubridae . Adult ticks were recovered from Squamata : Iguanidae under captive conditions in Poland by Nowak (2010). There are no records of Amblyomma quadricavum causing human parasitism.

M: Černý (1966b), under the name Aponomma quadricavum

F: Schulze (1941b), under the name Aponomma quadricavum and given its current status in Keirans and Klompen (1996)

N: unknown

L: Anderson et al. (1981), under the name Aponomma quadricavum

Redescriptions

M: Keirans and Garris (1986), under the name Amblyomma arianae, Santos Dias (1993) under the name Aponomma quadricavum, Voltzit (2007) , Barros-Battesti et al. (2009), Nowak (2010)

F: Santos Dias (1993), under the name Aponomma quadricavum, Voltzit (2007) , Barros-Battesti et al. (2009), Nowak (2010)

L: none

Note: Morel (1967) treats Amblyomma quadricavum (under the name Aponomma quadricavum ) as a synonym of Amblyomma albopictum .

References

Anderson, J. F., Magnarelli, L. A. & Keirans, J. E. (1981) Aponomma quadricavum (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from an imported boa, Epicrates striatus, in Connecticut. Journal of Medical Entomology, 18, 123 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 18.2.123

Barros-Battesti, D. M., Reyes Hernandez, M., Famadas, K. M., Onofrio, V. C., Beati, L. & Guglielmone, A. A. (2009) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Cuba. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 14, 101 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 14.2.3

Cerny, V. (1966 b) Nuevas garrapatas (Ixodoidea) en aves y reptiles de Cuba. Poeyana, Serie A, 26, 1 - 10.

Keirans, J. E. & Garris, G. I. (1986) Amblyomma arianae n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of Alsophis portoricensis (Reptilia: Colubridae) in Puerto Rico. Journal of Medical Entomology, 6, 622 - 625. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 23.6.622

Keirans, J. E. & Klompen, J. S. H. (1996) Amblyomma quadricavum (Schulze) (new combination), and Amblyomma arianae Keirans and Garris, a new junior synonym of Amblyomma quadricavum (Acari: Ixodidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 98, 164 - 165.

Morel, P. C. (1967) Les tiques des animaux sauvages des Antilles (Acariens, Ixodoidea). Acarologia, 9, 341 - 352.

Nowak, M. (2010) The characteristics of tick species (Acari: Ixodida) transferred on exotic reptiles to Poland. Wiadomosci Parazytologiczne, 56, 29 - 42.

Santos Dias, J. A. T. (1993) Contribuicao para o estudo da sistematica e taxonomia das especies do genero Aponomma Neumann, 1899 (Acarina-Ixodoidea). Estudos, Ensaios e Documentos, 157, 1 - 204.

Schulze, P. (1941 b) Ein neues Amblyomma und ein neues Aponomma mit Augenrudimenten aus Haiti. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 133, 225 - 229.

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