49. Amblyomma gervaisi (Lucas, 1847).

An Afrotropical and Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, are usually found on Squamata: Varanidae, but they have also been collected from Squamata: Colubridae and Elapidae. Adults and nymphs have been recovered from Squamata: Pythonidae, Artiodactyla: Bovidae, and Rodentia: Sciuridae; adults alone have been taken from Squamata: Agamidae and Viperidae, Artiodactyla: Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae, and Rodentia: Muridae; nymphs have been found on Anseriformes: Anatidae. There are no records of Amblyomma gervaisi causing human parasitism.

M: Lucas (1847), under the name Ixodes gervaisi and given its current status in Horak et al. (2002)

F: Lucas (1847), under the name Ixodes gervaisi

N: Neumann (1899), under the name Aponomma gervaisi

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1899, 1911a), Warburton (1910) and Sharif (1928), all under the name Aponomma gervaisi, Ghosh and Misra (2012); see note below

F: Neumann (1899, 1911a), Warburton (1910) and Sharif (1928), all under the name Aponomma gervaisi, Ghosh and Misra (2012); see note below

N: Sharif (1928), under the name Aponomma gervaisi

Note: redescriptions of Amblyomma gervaisi (under Aponomma) in Krijgsman and Ponto (1932) and Toumanoff (1944) in fact correspond to Amblyomma varanense, as explained in Kaufman (1972, under Aponomma); nevertheless, the spurs on coxa I depicted by Toumanoff (1944) for the female tick are not typical for Amblyomma varanense. Ghosh and Misra (2012) present a rather confused redescription of the male and female of Amblyomma gervaisi that is treated here as provisionally valid. Santos Dias (1993) treats Amblyomma gervaisi as an invalid name.