Reestablishment of Amblyomma tenellum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae)

Herein, Amblyomma tenellumKoch, 1844 (Ixodidae) is reestablished as a valid tick name and removed from the synonymy list of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787), while Amblyomma imitatorKohls, 1958, is relegated to a junior synonym of A. tenellum. Amblyomma tenellum is redescribed based on the exa...

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Autores principales: Nava, Santiago, Beati, Lorenza, Dunlop, Jason, Guglielmone, Alberto
Formato: info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X14000910
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/3037
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.04.012
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Sumario:Herein, Amblyomma tenellumKoch, 1844 (Ixodidae) is reestablished as a valid tick name and removed from the synonymy list of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787), while Amblyomma imitatorKohls, 1958, is relegated to a junior synonym of A. tenellum. Amblyomma tenellum is redescribed based on the examination of male type specimens collected by Deppe at the beginning of the 19th century in Mexico and described by Koch in 1844.