Amblyomma tenellum Koch 1844
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120. Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844a.
Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north), 2) USA; Neotropical: 1) Costa Rica, 2) Guatemala, 3) Honduras, 4) Mexico (south); 5) Nicaragua (Becklund 1959, Instituto Intermaericano para la Cooperación en Agricultura 1988, Alvarez et al. 2005, Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2011, Nava et al. 2014 c, Corn et al. 2016, Ḑttmann et al. 2016, Guglielmone et al. 2021).
Amblyomma tenellum was long treated as a synonym of Amblyomma cajennense. This changed when Nava et al. (2014c) compared the types of Amblyomma tenellum and Amblyomma imitator, described by Kohls (1958), and found them to be identical. Therefore, Amblyomma tenellum was reinstated as a valid species and Amblyomma imitator became its synonym. Most records of Amblyomma tenellum have been published under the name Amblyomma imitator.
Serra-Freire & Mello (2006) stated that Amblyomma tenellum (under the name Amblyomma imitator) has been found in Brazil. However, this statement was considered unconfirmed by Dantas-Torres et al. (2009), and Brazil is excluded from the geographic distribution of Amblyomma tenellum.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Koch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Amblyomma
- Species
- tenellum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844 sec. Guglielmone, Nava & Robbins, 2023
References
- Koch, C. L. (1844 a) Systematische Ubersicht ¸ ber die Ordnung der Zecken. Archiv f ¸ r Naturgeschichte, 10, 217 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29560
- Becklund, W. W. (1959) A note on the distribution of the tick Amblyomma imitator Kohls, 1958. Journal of Parasitology, 45, 430. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3274394
- Alvarez, V. C., Hernandez, V. F. & Hernandez, J. G. (2005) Catalogo de garrapatas suaves (Acari: Argasidae) y duras (Acari: Ixodidae) de Costa Rica. Brenesia, 63 - 64, 81 - 88.
- Guzman-Cornejo, C., Robbins, R. G., Guglielmone, A. A., Montiel-Parra, G. & Perez, T. M. (2011) The Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of Mexico: identification keys, distribution and hosts. Zootaxa, 2998, 16 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2998.1.2
- Nava, S., Beati, L., Dunlop, J. & Guglielmone, A. A. (2014 c) Reestablishment of Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 5, 620 - 624. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ttbdis. 2014.04.012
- Kim, H. C., Chong, S. T., Choi, C. Y., Nam, H. Y., Chae, H. Y., Lee, H., Klein, T. A., Robbins, R. G. & Chae, J. S. (2016) Tick surveillance, including new records for three Haemaphysalis species (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from migratory birds during 2009 on Hong Island (Hong-do), Republic of Korea. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 21, 596 - 606. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 21.5.4
- Guglielmone, A. A., Nava, S. & Robbins, R. G. (2021) Neotropical hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). A critical analysis of their taxonomy, distribution, and host relationships. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, 486 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 72353 - 8
- Kohls, G. M. (1958) Amblyomma imitator, a new species of tick from Texas and Mexico, and remarks on the synonymy of A. cajennense (Fabricius) (Acarina - Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 44, 430 - 433. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3274329
- Serra-Freire, N. M, & Mello, R. P. (2006) Entomologia e acarologia na medicina veterinaria. L. F. Livros, Rio de Janeiro, 199 pp.
- Dantas-Torres, F., Onofrio, V. C. & Barros-Battesti, D. M. (2009) The ticks (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) of Brazil. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 14, 30 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 14.1.4