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Amblyomma pseudoparvum Guglielmone, Mangold and Keirans 1990

Description

103. Amblyomma pseudoparvum Guglielmone, Mangold and Keirans, 1990.

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Rodentia: Caviidae; nymphs have also been collected from Caviidae. Adults alone have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders). Amblyomma pseudoparvum is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Guglielmone, Mangold and Keirans (1990)

F: Guglielmone, Mangold and Keirans (1990)

N: Guglielmone, Mangold and Keirans (1990)

L: Guglielmone, Mangold and Keirans (1990)

Redescriptions

M: Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017)

F: Voltzit (2007), Nava et al. (2017)

N: Martins et al. (2014), Nava et al. (2017)

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

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References

  • Guglielmone, A. A., Mangold, A. J. & Keirans, J. E. (1990) Redescription of the male and female of Amblyomma parvum Aragao, 1908, and description of the nymph and larva, and description of all stages of Amblyomma pseudoparvum sp. n. (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Acarologia, 31, 143 - 159.
  • Voltzit, O. V. (2007) A review of Neotropical Amblyomma species (Acari: Ixodidae). Acarina, 15, 3 - 134.
  • Nava, S., Venzal, J. M., Gonzalez-Acuna, D., Martins, T. F. & Guglielmone, A. A. (2017) Ticks of the Southern Cone of America. Elsevier Academic Press, London, San Diego, Cambridge, Oxford, 348 pp.
  • Martins, T. F., Labruna, M. B., Mangold, A. J., Cafrune, M. M., Guglielmone, A. A. & Nava, S. (2014) Taxonomic key to nymphs of the genus Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodidae) in Argentina, with description and redescription of the nymphal stage of four Amblyomma species. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 5, 753 - 770. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2014.05.007