Amblyomma romitii Tonelli Rondelli 1939
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Description
108. Amblyomma romitii Tonelli Rondelli, 1939.
A Neotropical species whose adults and nymphs have been found on Rodentia: Caviidae; adult ticks alone have been recovered from Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae. Amblyomma romitii is a rare parasite of humans.
M: Tonelli Rondelli (1939)
F: Tonelli Rondelli (1939)
N: Tonelli Rondelli (1939)
L: Barros-Battesti et al. (2012)
Redescriptions
M: Floch and Abonnenc (1940), under the name Amblyomma tasquei, a synonym of Amblyomma romitii, Floch and Fauran (1958), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Barros-Battesti et al. (2007a), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)
F: Floch and Abonnenc (1940), under the name Amblyomma tasquei, Floch and Fauran (1958), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Barros-Battesti et al. (2007a), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b)
N: Martins et al. (2010)
L: none
Note: Amblyomma romitii had been considered a synonym of Amblyomma extraoculatum but it was definitively reinstated as a valid species by Barros-Battesti et al. (2007a). See also Amblyomma extraoculatum.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tonelli Rondelli
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Amblyomma
- Species
- romitii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amblyomma romitii Rondelli, 1939 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Tonelli Rondelli, M. (1939) Ixodoidea. Parte II. Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna ixodologica Sud-americana. Rivista di Parassitologia, 3, 39 - 55.
- Barros-Battesti, D. M., Ramirez, D. G., Sampaio, J. S., Famadas, K. M., Faccini, J. L. H., Nunes, P. H., Martins, T. F., Ogrzewalska, M., Labruna, M. B., Marcili, A. & Barbieri, F. S. (2012) Description of larva of Amblyomma romitii (Acari: Ixodidae) by optical and scanning electron microscopy, including porotaxy and phylogenetic analysis. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 60, 271 - 280. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 012 - 9631 - 0
- Floch, H. & Abonnenc, E. (1940) Ixodides de la Guyane Francaise. Publication Institut Pasteur de la Guyane et de Territoire de l'Inini, 3, 1 - 46.
- Floch, H. & Fauran, P. (1958) Ixodides de la Guyane et des Antilles Francaises. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de la Guyane et de l'Inini, 446, 1 - 194.
- Onofrio, V. C., Labruna, M. B., Pinter, A., Giacomin, F. G. & Barros-Battesti, D. M. (2006 b) Comentarios e chaves para as especies do genero Amblyomma. In: Barros-Battesti, D. M., Arzua, M. & Bechara, G. H. (Eds.), Carrapatos de importancia medico-veterinaria da regiao neotropical: um guia ilustrada para identificacao de especies. Vox / ICTTD- 3 / Butantan, Sao Paulo, pp. 53 - 113.
- Barros-Battesti, D. M., Arzua, M., Onofrio, V. C. & Labruna, M. B. (2007 a) Validation and redescription of Amblyomma romitii Tonelli Rondelli, 1939 (Acari: Ixodidae). Systematic Parasitology, 68, 79 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11230 - 006 - 9079 - x
- Dantas-Torres, F., Martins, T. F., Munoz-Leal, S., Onofrio, V. C. & Barros-Battesti, D. M. (2019 b) Ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae, Ixodidae) of Brazil: updated species checklist and taxonomic keys. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 10 (article 101252), 1 - 45. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2019.06.012
- Martins, T. F., Onofrio, V. C., Barros-Battesti, D. M. & Labruna, M. B. (2010) Nymphs of the genus Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodidae) of Brazil: descriptions, redescriptions, and identification key. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 1, 75 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2010.03.002