Amblyomma nitidum Hirst & Hirst, 1910

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 : 55

82. Amblyomma nitidum Hirst & Hirst, 1910 .

Australasian: 1) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line), 2) New Caledonia, 3) Papua New Guinea, 4) Solomon Islands; Oriental: 1) India, 2) Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), 3) Singapore, 4) Taiwan ( Sharif 1928, Audy et al. 1960, Wilson 1970 a, Yamaguti et al. 1971, Kolonin 2009, Owen 2011, Kwak et al. 2020).

Several records of Amblyomma nitidum have been published under the name Amblyomma laticaudae , described by Warburton (1933) and Rageau & Vervent (1959) under the same name, but found to be a synonym of Amblyomma nitidum , as discussed in Guglielmone et al. (2020).

Indian records of Amblyomma nitidum refer to the Andaman Islands ( Sharif 1928), which are closer to the coast of Myanmar than to the Indian subcontinent.

Voltzit & Keirans (2002) listed Amblyomma nitidum as also found in the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region, but no records of this tick from that region were found during this analysis. Doss et al. (1974a) listed Amblyomma nitidum as a tick found in the Galápagos Islands ( Ecuador), based on Vercammen-Grandjean (1966), but the latter author simply hypothesized that Amblyomma nitidum might be able to reach the Galápagos along with its hosts.