Amblyomma echidnae Roberts, 1953

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 : 92

36. Amblyomma echidnae Roberts, 1953 .

An Australasian species whose adults are usually found on Monotremata : Tachyglossidae . There are no records of Amblyomma echidnae causing human parasitism.

M: Roberts (1964a), but see note below

F: Roberts (1953)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Roberts (1970)

F: Roberts (1970)

Note: Amblyomma echidnae is not listed as a valid species by Kolonin (2009), and Camicas et al. (1998) regard this species as a synonym of Amblyomma australiense , likely based on Roberts (1964 a, 1970), who stated that the male of Amblyomma echidnae is very similar to the male of Amblyomma australiense , and the former is probably a subspecies of the latter. Nevertheless, Amblyomma echidnae is treated as provisionally valid in Guglielmone et al. (2014, 2015) and here.