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Amblyomma calcaratum
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Description
Amblyomma calcaratum
Amblyomma calcaratum was recorded from Trinidad on anteaters, birds (Aitken et al. 1968a), small wild animals and humans (Smith 1974).
Distribution: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Belize, Guyana, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru (Jones et al. 1972; Caceres et al. 2002; Guglielmone et al. 2003; Voltzit 2007).
Notes
Published as part of Basu, A. K., Basu, M. & Adesiyun, A. A., 2012, A Review On Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae, Argasidae), Associated Pathogens And Diseases Of Trinidad And Tobago, pp. 39-50 in Acarologia 52 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122034, http://zenodo.org/record/4667077
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Amblyomma
- Species
- calcaratum
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Aitken T. H. G., Worth C. B., Tikasingh E. S. 1968 a - Arbovirus studies in Bush Bush Forest, Trinidad, W. I., September 1959 - December 1964. III. Entomological Studies - Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 17 (2): 253-268.
- Smith M. W. 1974 - A survey of the distribution of the Ixodid ticks Boophilus microplus (Canestrini, 1888) and Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) in Trinidad and Tobago and the possible influence of the survey results on planned livestock development - Trop. Agric. (Trinidad), 51 (4): 559-567.
- Jones E. K., Clifford C. M., Keirans J. E., Kohls G. M. 1972 - The ticks of Venezuela (Acarina: Ixodoidea) with a key to the species of Amblyomma in the western hemisphere - Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 17 (4): 25.
- Caceres A. G., Beati, L., Keirans, J. E. 2002 - First evidence of the ocurrence of Amblyomma calcaratum Neumann, 1899 in Peru - Rev. Per. Entomol., 9: 116-117.
- Guglielmone A. A., Estrada-Pena A., Luciana C. A., Mangold A. J., Keirans J. E. 2003 - Hosts and distribution of Amblyomma auricularium (Conil 1878) and Amblyomma pseudoconcolor Aragao, 1908 (Acari: Ixodidae) - Exp. Appl. Acarol., 29: 131-139. doi: 10.1023 / A: 1024251020035
- Voltzit O. V. 2007 - A review of neotropical Amblyomma species (Acari: Ixodidae) - Acarina, 15 (1): 3-134.