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

105. Amblyomma rhinocerotis ( De Geer, 1778) .

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.