Amblyomma gervaisi ( Lucas, 1847 )

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 48

49. Amblyomma gervaisi ( Lucas, 1847) .

Afrotropical: 1) Yemen; Oriental: 1) Bangladesh, 2) India, 3) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s line), 4) Nepal (south and central), 5) Pakistan (east), 6) Sri Lanka, 7) Thailand, 8) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) Afghanistan ( Kaufman 1972, Hoogstraal 1973 a, Tanskul et al. 1983, Keirans 1985 b, Rahman & Mondal 1985, Kolonin 2009, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015 b, Pun et al. 2018, Petney et al. 2019).

Most records of Amblyomma gervaisi have been published under the name Aponomma gervaisi , but Santos Dias (1993b) applied the name Aponomma ophiophilum to this tick.

Amblyomma gervaisi has been widely confused with Amblyomma varanense ( Keirans 1985b) . Camicas et al. (1998) treated this tick as an Oriental species, while Guglielmone et al. (2014, 2020) regarded Amblyomma gervaisi as an Afrotropical and Oriental tick. Kaufman (1972) validated records from Yemen (Afrotropical), and Hoogstraal (1973) found Amblyomma gervaisi in Afghanistan (Palearctic), records that are treated as valid here. Nevertheless, Wassef et al. (1997) did not include Yemen within the range of Amblyomma gervaisi .