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Amblyomma macfarlandi Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford 1973
Description
72. Amblyomma macfarlandi Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1973.
A Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines: Testudinidae. There are no bona fide records of Amblyomma macfarlandi feeding on humans.
M: Keirans et al. (1973)
F: Robinson (1926), under the name Amblyomma pilosum, as explained by Keirans et al. (1973)
N: Keirans et al. (1973)
L: Keirans et al. (1973)
Redescriptions
M: Voltzit (2007)
F: Voltzit (2007)
N: none
L: none
Note: see Amblyomma boulengeri, Amblyomma hirtum and Amblyomma pilosum for their confusion with Amblyomma macfarlandi.
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 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Amblyomma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ixodida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford
- Species
- macfarlandi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amblyomma macfarlandi Keirans, 1973 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Hoogstraal, H., Clifford, C. M., Saito, Y. & Keirans, J. E. (1973 a) Ixodes (Partipalpiger) ovatus Neumann, subgen. nov.: identity, hosts, ecology, and distribution (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 10, 157 - 164. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 10.2.157
- Keirans, J. E., Hoogstraal, H. & Clifford, C. M. (1973) The Amblyomma (Acarina: Ixodidae) parasitic on giant tortoises (Reptilia: Testudinidae) of the Galapagos Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 66, 673 - 688. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 66.3.673
- Robinson, L. E. (1926) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part IV. The genus Amblyomma. Cambridge University Press, London, 302 pp.
- Voltzit, O. V. (2007) A review of Neotropical Amblyomma species (Acari: Ixodidae). Acarina, 15, 3 - 134.