Amblyomma flavomaculatum ( Lucas, 1846 )

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 : 94

41. Amblyomma flavomaculatum ( Lucas, 1846) .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Squamata : Varanidae and Pythonidae ; immature stages have also been collected from those hosts; adult ticks alone have been recovered from Crocodilia: Crocodylidae , and Squamata : Elapidae and Iguanidae (Guglielmone et al. 2014, Charruau et al. 2017). There are no records of Amblyomma flavomaculatum causing human parasitism.

M: Lucas (1846), under the name Ixodes flavomaculatus and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

F: Tendeiro (1950), under the name Aponomma halli

N: Saratsiotis (1972)

L: Saratsiotis (1972)

Redescriptions

M: Tendeiro (1955), Kaufman (1972), Saratsiotis (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma flavomaculatum, Nowak (2010)

F: Tendeiro (1955), Kaufman (1972), Saratsiotis (1972), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma flavomaculatum, Nowak (2010)

N: none

L: none

Note: See Amblyomma arcanum and Amblyomma inopinatum for a discussion of the difficulties involved in morphologically separating Amblyomma flavomaculatum from related species.