Amblyomma macfarlandi Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1973

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 105

72. Amblyomma macfarlandi Keirans, Hoogstraal and Clifford, 1973 .

A Neotropical species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines : Testudinidae . There are no bona fide records of Amblyomma macfarlandi feeding on humans.

M: Keirans et al. (1973)

F: Robinson (1926), under the name Amblyomma pilosum , as explained by Keirans et al. (1973)

N: Keirans et al. (1973)

L: Keirans et al. (1973)

Redescriptions

M: Voltzit (2007)

F: Voltzit (2007)

N: none

L: none

Note: see Amblyomma boulengeri , Amblyomma hirtum and Amblyomma pilosum for their confusion with Amblyomma macfarlandi .