Amblyomma falsomarmoreum Tonelli Rondelli, 1935

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 : 93

39. Amblyomma falsomarmoreum Tonelli Rondelli, 1935 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Testudines : Testudinidae , and Squamata : Varanidae , with some infrequent records from Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Camelidae and Suidae . Amblyomma falsomarmoreum is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Tonelli Rondelli (1935)

F: Tonelli Rondelli (1935)

N: Borght-Elbl (1977); see note below

L: Borght-Elbl (1977)

Redescriptions

M: Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

F: Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

N: none

L: Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: Voltzit and Keirans (2003) do not recognize the description of the nymph of Amblyomma falsomarmoreum in Borght-Elbl (1977) . See Amblyomma marmoreum for a discussion of the problems involved in correctly identifying species of the Amblyomma marmoreum group, to which Amblyomma falsomarmoreum belongs.