Amblyomma testudinarium Koch, 1844a

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 : 63

121. Amblyomma testudinarium Koch, 1844a .

Australasian: 1) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line); Oriental: 1) Bangladesh, 2) Bhutan (south), 3) Cambodia, 4) China (south), 5) India, 6) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 7) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 8) Laos, 9) Malaysia, 10) Myanmar, 11) Nepal (south and central), 12) Philippines, 13) Sri Lanka, 14) Taiwan, 15) Thailand, 16) Vietnam; Palearctic: 1) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 2) South Korea ( Anastos 1950, Kohls 1950b, Yamaguti et al. 1971, Phan Trong 1977, Tanskul et al. 1983, Keirans 1985b, Kolonin 1995b, Robbins 2005, Islam et al. 2006, Durden et al. 2008, Chen et al. 2010, Burridge 2011, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015 a, Vongphayloth et al. 2016, Chae et al. 2019, Petney et al. 2019, Azama et al. 2021, Namgyal et al. 2021, Seo et al. 2021).

Camicas et al. (1998) regarded Amblyomma testudinarium as an Oriental and Palearctic species, but this tick was also collected on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, within the Australasian Region, by Anastos (1950).

Guglielmone et al. (2017) believe that more than one species may exist under the name Amblyomma testudinarium . Molecular analyses in Chao et al. (2017) and, especially, in Nakao et al. (2021) demonstrated significant genomic differences among populations of Amblyomma testudinarium from China, Japan and Thailand.