Amblyomma incisum Neumann, 1906

Benavides-Montaño, Javier Antonio, Betancourt-Echeverri, Jesus Antonio, Valencia, Gustavo López & Mesa-Cobo, Nora Cristina, 2022, A review of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Colombia: The risk of tick-borne diseases, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (3), pp. 397-437 : 403

Amblyomma incisum Neumann, 1906 ( Fig. 2)

It is distributed in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela ( Onofrio et al. 2006; Lopez 2017). The main host is Perissodactyla , but it is also found on C. lupus familiaris and capybara ( Onofrio et al. 2006). In Colombia, there have been reports of A. incisum on monkeys in San Juan de Arama, Meta, and also on Tapirus terrestris and Myrmecophaga tridactyla (Lopez 2017) . In Colombia, no updates have been made recently, but considering that A. incisum population is highly dependent on a forest-like environment, and it is disseminated in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil on tapir – the main host for adult ticks, and the fact that rabbits and horses are suitable hosts for larvae and nymphs ( Szabo et al. 2009), this tick might have a notorious distribution in Guainia, Vaupes and Amazonas ( Colombia departments).