Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888

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 : 119

112. Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 .

A Neotropical species whose adults and nymphs are usually found on Mammalia (several orders). All parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae , Perissodactyla : Equidae , and Cariamiformes: Cariamidae ; adults and nymphs have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders); adults alone have been taken from Struthioniformes : Rheidae , and Testudines : Chelidae ; nymphs and larvae have been found on Galliformes : Cracidae ; nymphs alone have been collected from Rodentia (several families), and Aves (several orders); while larvae alone have been recovered from Passeriformes : Cardinalidae and Thraupidae (Kluyber et. al. 2016, Luz et al. 2017 a, Martins et al. 2017, Sousa et al. 2017, Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Tarragona et al. 2018, Barbieri et al. 2019). Amblyomma sculptum is a frequent parasite of humans.

M: Berlese (1888)

F: Berlese (1888)

N: Martins et al. (2010), under the name Amblyomma cajennense , as explained in Martins et al. (2014)

L: Famadas et al. (1997), as explained in Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

Redescriptions

M: Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014a, 2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

F: Tonelli Rondelli (1937), Nava et al. (2014a, 2017), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)

N: Martins et al. (2014), Nava et al. (2017)

L: none

Note: see Amblyomma cajennense for the composition of the species group to which Amblyomma sculptum belongs and a discussion of the problems attending this species’ morphological diagnosis. Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) stressed the difficulties involved in morphologically separating the males and females of Amblyomma sculptum and Amblyomma cajennense sensu stricto. Rodríguez et al. (2019) present a figure of the male of Amblyomma sculptum , but the depicted tick belongs to another species of Amblyomma . Vogel et al. (2018) allegedly found specimens of Amblyomma sculptum in Nicaragua; that record, here considered a misidentification, was subsequently corrected in the online version of their paper.