Amblyomma paulopunctatum Neumann, 1899

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 : 113-114

95. Amblyomma paulopunctatum Neumann, 1899 .

An Afrotropical species whose adults and nymphs are usually found on Artiodactyla : Suidae , but all parasitic stages, including the undescribed larva, have been collected from these hosts. Adults and nymphs have also been recovered from Bovidae ; adult ticks alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Hippopotamidae , Carnivora : Hyaenidae , and Rodentia : Thryonomyidae ; larvae and nymphs have been found on Galliformes : Phasianidae . Amblyomma paulopunctatum is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1899)

F: Robinson (1926), but see note below

N: Borght-Elbl (1977), but see note below

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Robinson (1926), Tendeiro (1952), Theiler and Salisbury (1959), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Keirans (1985a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003); see note below

F: Tendeiro (1952), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Keirans (1985a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003); see note below

N: none

Note: Robinson (1926) and Keirans (1985a) stated that the first description of the female of Amblyomma paulopunctatum is in Neumann (1908d) under the name Amblyomma trimaculatum . This opinion is disputed in Guglielmone et al. (2003) and Guglielmone and Nava (2014), who treat both names as incertae sedis, because they note that females of Amblyomma guianense , described in Neumann (1907d) , and Amblyomma trimaculatum are almost identical. Neumann (1908d) recognized that both species are morphologically close, and the name Amblyomma trimaculatum was subsequently ignored in Neumann (1911a) . Therefore, the first description of the female of Amblyomma paulopunctatum is considered to be that in Robinson (1926). The description of the nymph of Amblyomma paulopunctatum in Borght-Elbl (1977) is tentatively recognized in Keirans (1985a), but the nymph is considered undescribed in Voltzit and Keirans (2003). The description of the nymph of Amblyomma paulopunctatum in Borght-Elbl (1977) is here treated as provisionally valid. Tendeiro (1952) illustrated the male and female of Amblyomma paulopunctatum as lacking spurs on coxae II and III, but other authors depict both sexes with a short spur on each coxa.