Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) with the description of three new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp. and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp., and reinstatement of Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844, and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 (Ixodida: Ixodidae)

Santiago Nava; Lorenza Beati; Marcelo B. Labruna; Abraham G. Cáceres; Atilio J. Mangold; Alberto A. Guglielmone

doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.11.004

Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) with the description of three new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp. and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp., and reinstatement of Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844, and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 (Ixodida: Ixodidae)

Santiago Nava, Lorenza Beati, Marcelo B. Labruna, Abraham G. Cáceres, Atilio J. Mangold, Alberto A. Guglielmone

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A reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense based on the morphological analyses of ticks from the whole distribution area of the species resulted in the redescription of A. cajennense, the validation of 2 species which had been reduced to synonymy in the past, Amblyomma mixtum and Amblyomma sculptum, and the description and definition of 3 new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp., and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp. This study provides descriptions and redescriptions, scanning electron microscopic and stereomicroscopic images, updated synonymies, information on geographical distributions, and host associations for each of the 6 species. Amblyomma cajennense s.s. is found in the Amazonian region of South America, A. interandinum is reported from the northern part of the Inter-Andean valley of Peru, A. mixtum is present from Texas (U.S.A.) to western Ecuador, A. patinoi occurs in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, A. tonelliae is associated with the dry areas of the Chaco region which spans from central-northern Argentina to Bolivia and Paraguay, whereas A. sculptum is distributed from the humid areas of northern Argentina, to the contiguous regions of Bolivia and Paraguay and the coastal and central-western states of Brazil.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	252-276
Number of pages	25
Journal	Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
Volume	5
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.11.004
State	Published - Apr 2014

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Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support of INTA, Asociación Cooperadora EEA-INTA Rafaela, CONICET, and PICT1298 to SN, AJM, and AAG. We wish to thank Jonathan Coddington (Smithonian Institution) for letting us use his BK Plus Digital Lab System and for teaching us how to use it, David Furth (Smithsonian Institution) for providing technical help and logistical support, and Patricia Sarmiento (Servicio de Microscopía Electrónica, Museo de La Plata, Argentina) for preparing the scanning electron micrographs. We would like to thank Jason Dunlop, Luca Bartolozzi, and Nikolaj Scharff for sending us type materials. This study was funded in part through grant NSF1026146 to L. Beati. We also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive contributions. ICPS publication number 2.

Keywords

Amblyomma cajennense species group
Ixodidae
New species
Taxonomic status

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Nava, S., Beati, L., Labruna, M. B., Cáceres, A. G., Mangold, A. J., & Guglielmone, A. A. (2014). Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) with the description of three new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp. and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp., and reinstatement of Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844, and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 (Ixodida: Ixodidae). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 5(3), 252-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.11.004

Nava, Santiago ; Beati, Lorenza ; Labruna, Marcelo B. et al. / Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) with the description of three new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp. and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp., and reinstatement of Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844, and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 (Ixodida: Ixodidae). In: Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2014 ; Vol. 5, No. 3. pp. 252-276.

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Reassessment of the taxonomic status of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) with the description of three new species, Amblyomma tonelliae n. sp., Amblyomma interandinum n. sp. and Amblyomma patinoi n. sp., and reinstatement of Amblyomma mixtum Koch, 1844, and Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 (Ixodida: Ixodidae). / Nava, Santiago; Beati, Lorenza; Labruna, Marcelo B. et al.
In: Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Vol. 5, No. 3, 04.2014, p. 252-276.

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