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Amblyomma americanum Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Arachnida
order
Ixodida
family
Ixodidae
genus
Amblyomma
species
Amblyomma americanum

Name

Synonyms
Acarus americanus Linnaeus, 1758
Acarus nigua De Geer, 1778
Amblyomma americanum Camicas et al., 1998
Amblyomma americanum Santos Dias, 1993
Amblyomma foreli Stoll, 1890
Amblyomma unipunctatum Thurow, 1891
Amblyomma unipunctum Packard, 1870
Euthesius americanus Gistel, 1848
Ixodes americanus Fabricius, 1805
Ixodes nigra Cobbold, 1879
Ixodes nigua Latreille, 1804
Ixodes orbicularis Neumann, 1901
Ixodes orbiculatus Say, 1821
Ixodes unipictus Verrill, 1870
Ixodes unipunctata Packard, 1869
Rhynchoprion americanum Hermann, 1804
Homonyms
Amblyomma americanum Linnaeus, 1758
Amblyomma americanum Camicas et al., 1998
Amblyomma americanum Santos Dias, 1993
Common names
La garrapata de la estrella solitaria in Spanish
Lone Star Tick in English
Lone Star tick in English
Lone star tick in English
Tique étoilée d’Amérique in French
lone star tick in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Durden, Lance A., Kimberlee B. Beckmen, and Robert F. Gerlach, 2016: New Records of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) From Dogs, Cats, Humans, and Some Wild Vertebrates in Alaska: Invasion Potential. Journal of Medical Entomology, vol. 53, no. 6. 1391-1395.
  2. Guglielmone, Alberto A., Richard G. Robbins, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Trevor N. Petney, et al., 2010: The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names. Zootaxa, vol. 2528. 1-28.
  3. Guglielmone, Alberto A., Richard G. Robbins, Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Trevor N. Petney, et al., 2014: null. The Hard Ticks of the World (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). xiii + 738.
  4. Lindquist, Evert E., Terry D. Galloway, Harvey Artsob, L. Robbin Lindsay, Michael Drebot, et al., 2016: A Handbook to the Ticks of Canada (Ixodida: Ixodidae, Argasidae). Biological Survey of Canada Monograph Series, no. 7. v + 317.
  5. Nishida (2002), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/tr22.pdf
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