Amblyomma torrei Pérez Vigueras, 1934

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 : 64-65

125. Amblyomma torrei Pérez Vigueras, 1934 .

Neotropical: 1) Bahamas, 2) Cayman Islands, 3) Cuba, 4) Puerto Rico ( Whittick 1939, Černý 1969b, Durden & Knapp 2005, Voltzit 2007, Barros-Battesti et al. 2009, Guglielmone et al. 2021).

Data concerning Amblyomma torrei are here considered provisional because the morphological definition of this tick is imprecise. Morel (1967) regarded Amblyomma torrei as a synonym of Amblyomma cruciferum . Later, Camicas et al. (1998) treated this tick as valid but recognized only the male as having been described, tacitly rejecting the description of the female in Whittick (1939) and its redescription in Černý (1966b), along with the description of the nymph in Whittick (1939) and the larva in Černý (1969b). Thereafter, Voltzit (2007) and Barros-Battesti et al. (2009) redescribed the male and female of Amblyomma torrei . However, there are significant morphological differences among all redescriptions of the adult ticks. In the case of Whittick (1939), there are important morphological discrepancies between the figures used to describe the female ( Guglielmone et al. 2021). Guglielmone et al. (2003) had previously stressed the difficulties involved in morphologically separating Amblyomma torrei and Amblyomma cruciferum and recommended a comparison of their types in order to refine the morphological definitions of these ticks.

Camicas et al. (1998) and Guglielmone et al. (2003) treated Amblyomma torrei as a Neotropical species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014) listed it as both Nearctic and Neotropical. Later, Guglielmone et al. (2020, 2021) reviewed the range of Amblyomma torrei , finding that all records of this species are Neotropical.