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Amblyomma moreliae

Description

77. Amblyomma moreliae (Koch, 1867).

An Australasian species whose adults are usually found on Squamata (several families) and rarely on Diprotodontia: Macropodidae, and Perissodactyla: Equidae; immature stages have been collected from Squamata: Agamidae, Elapidae and Scincidae. Amblyomma moreliae is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Koch (1867), under the name Ixodes moreliae and given its current status in Neumann (1899)

F: Neumann (1901)

N: Roberts (1964a)

L: Roberts (1969)

Redescriptions

M: Neumann (1899), Robinson (1926), Roberts (1953, 1964 a, 1970)

F: Robinson (1926), Roberts (1953, 1964 a, 1970)

N: Roberts (1970)

L: none

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 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Koch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Amblyomma
Species
moreliae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Amblyomma moreliae (Koch, 1867) sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Koch, L. (1867) Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch- Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 17, 173 - 250.
  • Neumann, L. G. (1899) Revision de la famille des ixodides (3 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 12, 107 - 294.
  • Neumann, L. G. (1901) Revision de la famille des ixodides (4 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 14, 249 - 372.
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1964 a) Further observations of the Australian species of Aponomma and Amblyomma with descriptions of the nymphs of Amblyomma moreliae (L. Koch) and Amb. loculosum Neumann (Acarina: Ixodidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 12, 288 - 313. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / ZO 9640288
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1969) The larvae of Australian Ixodidae (Acarina: Ixodoidea). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 8, 37 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1440 - 6055.1969. tb 00731. x
  • Robinson, L. E. (1926) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part IV. The genus Amblyomma. Cambridge University Press, London, 302 pp.
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1953) The Australian species of Aponomma and Amblyomma (Ixodoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology, 1, 111 - 161. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / ZO 9530111
  • Saratsiotis, A. (1970) Etude morphologique et observations biologiques sur Ixodes gibbosus Nuttall, 1916. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 45, 661 - 675. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 1970455661
  • Roberts, F. H. S. (1970) Australian ticks. CSIRO, Melbourne, 267 pp.