Species Amblyomma flavomaculatum (Lucas, 1846)

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• Ixodes flavomaculatum Lucas, H. 1846. Sur quelques espèces nouvelles d'Ixodes qui vivent parasites sur les serpens (Boa constrictor and Python sebae) et sur l'Ornithorhynque (Ornithorhynchus paradoxus Blum.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 4: 53-64 pl. I.
• Aponomma pulchrum Roberts, F.H.S. 1953. The Australian species of Aponomma and Amblyomma (Ixodoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 111-161 pls 1-4.

Introduction

Kaufman (1972) found that Aponomma pulchrum Roberts 1953 is a synonym of Amblyomma flavomaculatum, and speculated that it may have been accidentally imported into Australia. Camicas et al. (1998) treated Aponomma pulchrum as a synonym of Aponomma gervaisi, but that proposal has not been confirmed.

General References

Barker, S.C., Walker, A.R. & Campelo, D. 2014. A list of the 70 species of Australian ticks; diagnostic guides to and species accounts of Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis tick), Ixodes cornuatus (southern paralysis tick) and Rhipicephalus australis (Australian cattle tick); and consideration of the place of Australia in the evolution of ticks with comments on four controversial ideas. International Journal for Parasitology 44: 941-953. (as Amblyomma (Aponomma) flavomaculatum)

Camicas, J.-L., Hervy, J.-P., Adam, F. & Morel, P.C. 1998. Les Tiques du Monde (Acarida, Ixodida). Paris : Orstom 233 pp. (as Aponomma (Aponomma) gervaisi)

Kaufman, T.S. 1972. A Revision of the Genus Aponomma Neumann, 1899 (Acarina; Ixodidae). Ph. D. Thesis, University of Maryland. 390 pp. (as Aponomma flavomaculatum)

Monroe, R. 1972. Chelicerate type-specimens in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 291-307 (as Aponomma pulchrum)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1953. The Australian species of Aponomma and Amblyomma (Ixodoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 111-161 pls 1-4 (as Aponomma pulchrum)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1964. Further observations on the Australian species of Aponomma and Amblyomma with descriptions of the nymphs of Amblyomma moreliae (L. Koch) and Amb. loculosum Neumann (Acarina : Ixodidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 12: 288-313 (as Aponomma pulchrum)

Roberts, F.H.S. 1970. Australian Ticks. Melbourne : CSIRO 267 pp. (as Aponomma pulchrum)

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