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Amblyomma cajennense
Authors/Creators
- 1. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USA & One Health Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA & Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA
- 2. Instituto de Investigación de la Cadena Láctea (INTA-CONICET), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina
- 3. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA
- 4. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
- 5. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, CP 2300 Rafaela, Argentina
Description
cajennense (Fabricius, 1787), Amblyomma
Fabricius, J.C. (1787) Mantisa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus. Vol. 2. Impensis C. G. Proft, Hafniae, 382 pp.
See also cajennensis Fabricius, 1787, Acarus
Type depository: USNTC: a neotype (male) was designated by Nava et al. (2014a)
Type locality: Montalbó hiking trail, Cayenne, French Guiana
Type host: the holotype specimen was collected from vegetation
Comments: this species was originally named Acarus cajennensis, but the neotype was described under the name Amblyomma cajennense.
Notes
Published as part of Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world's hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, pp. 1-287 in Zootaxa 5606 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15215074 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7E5A8630FFC54215FFB4FFEFFFE4FFA8 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/8263FE48FFE24232FF23FB1CFE4AF984 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Amblyomma
- Species
- cajennense
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) sec. Robbins, Nava, Ronai, Chong & Guglielmone, 2025
References
- Nava, S., Beati, L., Labruna, M. B., Caceres, A. G., Mangold, A. J. & Guglielmone, A. A. (2014 a) Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) with the description of three new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp. and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp., and reinstatement of Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844 and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 (Ixodida: Ixodidae). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 5, 252-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.11.004