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Amblyomma cohaerens Donitz 1909

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Description

25. Amblyomma cohaerens Dönitz, 1909.

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; immature stages have been collected from Mammalia (several orders), Galliformes: Numididae and Phasianidae, and Passeriformes: Turdidae. Amblyomma cohaerens is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Dönitz (1909)

F: Robinson (1926)

N: Borght-Elbl (1977)

L: Borght-Elbl (1977)

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

N: Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

L: Voltzit and Keirans (2003)

Note: Amblyomma cohaerens appears to be rather difficult to identify because there are several claims of confusion with congeners in Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Walker (1974), Keirans (1985c), Matthysse and Colbo (1987) and Uilenberg et al. (2013), among others, raising uncertainties about the descriptions and redescriptions listed above, with the exception of the original description. Additionally, these redescriptions lack uniformity and precision. Voltzit and Keirans (2003), for example, claim that Elbl and Anastos (1966a) and, tacitly, Borght-Elbl (1977), confused Amblyomma astrion with Amblyomma cohaerens, but the redescription of the female scutum in Voltzit and Keirans (2003) differs in terms of the pattern of punctations when compared with Robinson (1926). Moreover, Voltzit and Keirans (2003) state that the dentition of the nymphal hypostome of Amblyomma cohaerens is 2/2, but their figure shows a 3/3 dental formula. It would be worthwhile to further study the external morphology of Amblyomma cohaerens, with support from molecular taxonomy.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C04787D4FFBEFF95FF07FDCD66C4CEDA

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1 (DOI)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7890/taxon/C04787D4FFBEFF95FF07FDCD66C4CEDA.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Amblyomma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ixodida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Donitz
Species
cohaerens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Amblyomma cohaerens Donitz, 1909 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Donitz, W. (1909) Uber das Zeckengenus Amblyomma. Sitzungsberichten der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 8, 440 - 482. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 11762
  • Robinson, L. E. (1926) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part IV. The genus Amblyomma. Cambridge University Press, London, 302 pp.
  • Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.
  • Elbl A. & Anastos, G. (1966 a) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume I. General introduction. Genus Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Annales du Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 145, 1 - 275.
  • Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.
  • Voltzit, O. V. & Keirans, J. E. (2003) A review of African Amblyomma species (Acari, Ixodida, Ixodidae). Acarina, 11, 135 - 214.
  • Walker, J. B. (1974) The ixodid ticks of Kenya. A review of present knowledge of their hosts and distribution. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, 220 pp.
  • Keirans, J. E. (1985 c) George Henry Falkiner Nuttall and the Nuttall tick catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Miscellaneous Publication 1438. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Washington, D. C., 1785 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 65326
  • Uilenberg, G., Estrada-Pena, A. & Thal, J. (2013) Ticks of the Central African Republic. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 60, 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 012 - 9605 - 2