Amblyomma antillorum Kohls, 1969b

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 : 80-81

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4581073
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scientific name	Amblyomma antillorum Kohls, 1969b
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A Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually col-lected from Squamata : Iguanidae . Durden et al. (2015) found adults on Squamata : Boidae , and larvae on Squamata : Colubridae and Teiidae . There are no records of Amblyomma antillorum causing human parasitism.

M: Kohls (1969b)

F: Kohls (1969b)

N: Keirans (1985b)

L: Keirans (1985b)

Redescriptions

M: Voltzit (2007)

F: Voltzit (2007)

N: none

L: none

References

Durden, L. A., Knapp, C. R., Beati, L. & Dold, S. (2015) Reptile-associated ticks from Dominica and the Bahamas with notes on hyperparasitic erythraeid mites. Journal of Parasitology, 101, 24 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.1645 / 14 - 602.1

Keirans, J. E. (1985 b) Amblyomma antillorum Kohls, 1969 (Acari: Ixodidae): description of the immature stages from the rock iguana, Iguana pinguis (Sauria: Iguanidae) in the British Virgin Islands. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 87, 821 - 825.

Kohls, G. M. (1969 b) A new species of Amblyomma from iguanas in the Caribbean (Acarina: Ixodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 6, 439 - 442. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 6.4.439

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