Amblyomma boulengeri Hirst and Hirst, 1910

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 : 84-85

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4583000
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scientific name	Amblyomma boulengeri Hirst and Hirst, 1910
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16. Amblyomma boulengeri Hirst and Hirst, 1910 View in CoL .

A Neotropical species known only to parasitize Squamata : Tropiduridae .

M: Hirst and Hirst (1910)

F: Hirst and Hirst (1910)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926)

F: Robinson (1926)

Note: Santos Dias (1958a) lists Amblyomma boulengeri as a synonym of Amblyomma pilosum , but Keirans et al. (1973) treat this synonymy as incorrect, adding that Santos Dias confused the type of Amblyomma pilosum with a female tick that was later described as Amblyomma macfarlandi .

References

Hirst, S. & Hirst, L. F. (1910) Description of five new species of ticks (Ixodidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 6, 299 - 308. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931008692856

Keirans, J. E., Hoogstraal, H. & Clifford, C. M. (1973) The Amblyomma (Acarina: Ixodidae) parasitic on giant tortoises (Reptilia: Testudinidae) of the Galapagos Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 66, 673 - 688. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 66.3.673

Robinson, L. E. (1926) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part IV. The genus Amblyomma. Cambridge University Press, London, 302 pp.

Santos Dias, J. A. T. (1958 a) Notes on various ticks (Acarina-Ixodidae) in collection at some entomological institutes in Paris and London. Anais do Instituto de Medicina Tropical, 15, 459 - 563.