Amblyomma
Amblyomma | |
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A female of firmly attached to and feeding on a dog. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Subclass: | Acari |
Order: | Ixodida |
Family: | Ixodidae |
Genus: | Amblyomma Koch, 1844 |
Species | |
About 130, see text. |
Amblyomma is a genus of hard ticks. Some are disease vectors, for example the Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Brazil or ehrlichiosis in the United States.
This genus is the third largest in the family Ixodidae, with its species primarily occupying the torrid zones of all the continents. The centre of species diversity is on the American continent, where half of all the species occur. On this continent, Amblyomma species reach far beyond the torrid zone, up to the 40th parallel in the Northern Hemisphere, to the 50th parallel in the Southern Hemisphere, and even reaches the alpine zone of the Andes.[1]
Species[]
- Amblyomma albolimbatum Neumann, 1907
- Amblyomma albopictum Neumann 1899
- Amblyomma americanum Linnaeus, 1758 – lone star tick
- Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2018[2]
- Kohls 1969
- Karsch, 1879
- Neumann, 1905
- Keirans & Garris, 1986[3]
- Dönitz, 1909
- Pallas, 1772
- Conil, 1878
- Neumann, 1905
- Schulze, 1933
- Vogelsang & Santos Dias 1953
- Nava, Mangold, Mastropaolo, Venzal, Oscherov and Guglielmone, 2009[4]
- Hirst & Hirst, 1910
- Aragão, 1908
- Neumann, 1899
- Amblyomma cajennense Fabricius, 1787
- Roberts, 1963
- Neumann, 1899
- Rageau, 1964
- Amblyomma clypeolatum Neumann, 1899
- Neumann, 1899
- Dönitz, 1909
- Macalister, 1872
- Neumann, 1899
- Neumann, 1901
- Robinson, 1926
- Neumann 1899
- Neumann, 1901
- Hirst & Hirst, 1910
- Koch 1844
- Neumann 1899
- Gerstäcker, 1873
- Roberts 1953
- Price, 1959
- Koch, 1844
- Neumann 1899
- Tonelli-Rondelli, 1935
- Amblyomma fimbriatum Koch, 1844
- Lucas, 1846
- Neumann, 1899
- Lucas, 1847
- Neumann, 1907
- Neumann, 1899
- Dönitz, 1909
- Durden, Keirans & Smith, 2002
- Cantor, 1847
- Amblyomma gervaisi Lucas, 1847
- Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994
- Neumann 1899
- Teng, 1981
- Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844
- Koch, 1844
- Neumann, 1906
- Koch, 1844
- Kohls, 1958
- Neumann, 1906
- Santos Dias, 1989
- Banks, 1909
- Amblyomma integrum Karsch, 1879
- Amblyomma interandinum Nava et al., 2014[5]
- Amblyomma javanense Supino, 1897
- Oudemans, 1928
- Anastos, 1956
- Warburton 1933
- Koch, 1844
- Dönitz, 1909
- Neumann, 1899
- Neumann, 1907
- Koch, 1844
- Keirans, Hoogstraal & Clifford, 1973
- Roberts, 1953
- Amblyomma maculatum Koch, 1844
- Koch, 1844
- Koch, 1844[5]
- Koch, 1867
- Roberts, 1953
- Neumann, 1899
- Packard, 1869
- Lane & Poinar, 1986
- Ribaga 1902
- Hirst & Hirst, 1910
- Amblyomma nodosum Neumann, 1899
- Dönitz, 1909
- Koch, 1844
- Kolonin, 1992
- Neumann, 1910
- Koch, 1844
- Aragão, 1911
- Hirst, 1914
- Fonseca & Aragao, 1952
- Neumann, 1901
- Aragão, 1908
- Amblyomma patinoi Nava, et al., 2014[5]
- Neumann, 1910
- Neumann 1899
- Dunn, 1933
- Neumann, 1901
- Neumann, 1906
- Neumann, 1899
- Dönitz, 1909
- Neumann, 1899
- Aragão, 1908
- Guglielmone, Mangold & Keirans, 1990
- Schulze, 1941
- Amblyomma rhinocerotis de Geer, 1778
- Warburton 1927
- Koch 1844
- Stoll, 1890
- Neumann, 1906
- Berlese, 1888[5]
- Neumann, 1899
- Anastos, 1956
- Neumann, 1899
- Amblyomma sphenodonti Dumbleton, 1943
- Giebel, 1877
- Kohls, 1953
- Neumann, 1905
- de Geer, 1778
- Dunn, 1933
- Amblyomma testudinarium Koch, 1844
- Neumann, 1899
- Koch 1844
- Amblyomma tonelliae Nava et al., 2014[5]
- Pérez Vigueras, 1934
- Lucas, 1845
- Amblyomma triguttatum Koch 1844
- Amblyomma trimaculatum Lucas, 1878
- Koch 1844
- Amblyomma tuberculatum Marx, 1894
- Keirans, Hoogstraal & Clifford, 1973
- Amblyomma varanense Supino, 1897
- Amblyomma variegatum Fabricius 1794
- Koch, 1844
- Keirans, Bull & Duffield, 1996
- Banks, 1924
Fossil species[]
- Chitimia-Dobler et al., 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
References[]
- ^ [1] Archived 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine G. V. Kolonin, Fauna of Ixodid Ticks of the World (Acari, Ixodidae), Moscow 2009
- ^ Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Apanaskevich, Maria A. (2018). "Description of a new species of Amblyomma Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae), parasite of deer (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) and wild pigs (Artiodactyla: Suidae) in the Philippines". Systematic Parasitology. 95 (5): 415–425. doi:10.1007/s11230-018-9797-x. S2CID 13748257.
- ^ Keirans, James E.; Garris, Glen I. (1986). "Amblyomma arianae, n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of Alsophis portoricensis (Reptilia: Colubridae) in Puerto Rico". Journal of Medical Entomology. 23 (6): 622–625. doi:10.1093/jmedent/23.6.622. PMID 3795233.
- ^ S. Nava, A. J. Mangold, M. Mastropaolo, J. M. Venzal, E. B. Oscherov, & A. A. Guglielmone. 2009. Amblyomma boeroi n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of the Chacoan peccary Catagonus wagneri (Rusconi) (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) in Argentina. Systematic Parasitology 73(3):161-74.
External links[]
- http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agah/pd/pages/ticksp2.htm
- Amblyomma variegatum on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Categories:
- Amblyomma
- Arachnids of South America
- Ixodidae
- Acari genera
- Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch