Reestablishment of Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae)

Santiago Nava; Lorenza Beati; Jason Dunlop; Alberto A Guglielmone

doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.04.012

Reestablishment of Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae)

Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2014 Oct;5(6):620-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.04.012. Epub 2014 Jul 10.

Authors

Santiago Nava¹, Lorenza Beati², Jason Dunlop³, Alberto A Guglielmone¹

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CC 22, CP 2300 Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina.
² United States National Tick Collection, Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA. Electronic address: lorenzabeati@georgiasouthern.edu.
³ Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 25017501
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.04.012

Abstract

Herein, Amblyomma tenellumKoch, 1844 (Ixodidae) is reestablished as a valid tick name and removed from the synonymy list of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787), while Amblyomma imitatorKohls, 1958, is relegated to a junior synonym of A. tenellum. Amblyomma tenellum is redescribed based on the examination of male type specimens collected by Deppe at the beginning of the 19th century in Mexico and described by Koch in 1844.

Keywords: Amblyomma cajennense species group; Amblyomma imitator; Amblyomma tenellum; Morphology; Taxonomy.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animals
Ixodidae / anatomy & histology
Ixodidae / classification*
Male
Terminology as Topic