Amblyomma compressum, Macalister, 1872

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FFF6-4226-FF23-F96DFC21F877

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Amblyomma compressum
status

 

compressum Macalister, 1872 View in CoL , Adenopleura

Macalister, A. (1872) Description of a new genus of Ixodea [sic]. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, New Series, 12, 287–288.

Type depository: not stated: syntypes (males)

Type locality: West Africa

Type host: Manis multiscutata

Current status: a synonym of Amblyomma compressum and its original name, as listed in Camicas et al. (1998). The current status of Adenopleura compressum , as Amblyomma compressum , was provided by Schulze (1941) and not by Neumann (1901), as stated in Guglielmone & Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2017).

Comments: Theiler (1962) stated that the type specimens have been lost.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Ixodida

Family

Ixodidae

Genus

Amblyomma

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