Amblyomma rhinocerotis ( De Geer, 1778 )

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 : 117

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scientific name	Amblyomma rhinocerotis ( De Geer, 1778 )
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105. Amblyomma rhinocerotis ( De Geer, 1778) View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Perissodactyla : Rhinocerotidae . Adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Hippopotamidae and Suidae , Carnivora : Felidae , Perissodactyla : Rhinocerotidae , and rarely from Squamata : Pythonidae , and Testudines (unknown family). There are no records of Amblyomma rhinocerotis causing human parasitism.

M: De Geer (1778), under the name Acarus rhinocerotis and given its current status in Koch (1844a)

F: Neumann (1899) , under the name Amblyomma aureum , a synonym of Amblyomma rhinocerotis

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Horak et al. 2018)

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Horak et al. 2018)

Note: Guglielmone and Nava (2014) noted several instances where specimens redescribed as Amblyomma rhinocerotis were actually confused with Dermacentor rhinocerinus and vice versa.

References

De Geer, C. (1778) Memoire pour servir a l'histoire des insects. Vol. 7. P. Hesselberg, Stockholm, 950 pp.

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.

Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names - with notes on confusions and misidentifications. Zootaxa, 3767 (1), 1 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3767.1.1

Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.

Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9

Koch, C. L. (1844 a) Systematische Ubersicht uber die Ordnung der Zecken. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 10, 217 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29560

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

Neumann, L. G. (1899) Revision de la famille des ixodides (3 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 12, 107 - 294.

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