Amblyomma compressum ( Macalister, 1872 )

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 : 43

26. Amblyomma compressum ( Macalister, 1872) .

Afrotropical: 1) Angola, 2) Burundi, 3) Cameroon, 4) Central African Republic, 5) Congo, 6) Democratic Republic of the Congo, 7) Equatorial Guinea, 8) Gabon, 9) Ghana, 10) Guinea, 11) Ivory Coast, 12) Liberia, 13) Nigeria, 14) Rwanda, 15) Togo, 16) Uganda ( Santos Dias 1957, Aeschlimann 1963, Morel 1963b, Morel & Mouchet 1965, Doss et al. 1974 a, Keirans 1985 b, Matthysse & Colbo 1987, Konstantinov 1990, Morel 2003, Ntiamoa-Baidu et al. 2004, Pourrut et al. 2011, Uilenberg et al. 2013, Mediannikov et al. 2012a, b).

Several records of Amblyomma compressum have been published under the name Amblyomma cuneatum .

The geographic distribution of Amblyomma compressum is controversial. Voltzit & Keirans (2003), Kolonin (2009), Burridge (2011) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) included Botswana, Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa within the geographic distribution of this species. However, Walker (1991) and Horak et al. (2018) did not recognize the presence of Amblyomma compressum in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, while Cumming (1999) stated that this tick is not found in southern Africa. Amblyomma compressum is not listed as found in Kenya by Walker (1974), and no records of this tick have been found for Gambia, Mozambique and Senegal. The labeling of a female of Amblyomma compressum , under the name Amblyomma cuneatum , as found in the Seychelles appears to be in error ( Robinson 1926). None of the countries named in this paragraph are included within the range of Amblyomma compressum .