Amblyomma personatum Neumann, 1901

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 : 58

96. Amblyomma personatum Neumann, 1901 .

Afrotropical: 1) Gabon, 2) Kenya, 3) Tanzania ( Neumann 1901 , Theiler 1962, Yeoman & Walker 1967, Walker 1974, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Olivieri et al. 2021).

Kolonin (2009) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) listed only Kenya and Tanzania as being within the geographic distribution of Amblyomma personatum , while Neumann (1901) described this species from adult ticks collected in Gabon and Kenya. However, no additional records of Amblyomma personatum from Gabon have been found, including during the study of Pourrut et al. (2011), who investigated the ticks occurring there. Amblyomma personatum has chiefly been collected from highly endangered rhinoceros, so perhaps this tick is no longer present in Gabon, a country provisionally considered within the range of Amblyomma personatum . This situation may also apply to Kenya and Tanzania.