Amblyomma fimbriatum

Australasian: 1) Australia, 2) Indonesia (east of Wallace’s Line), 3) Papua New Guinea, 4) Solomon Islands; Oriental: 1) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 2) Malaysia, 3) Philippines (Kohls 1950 b, Wilson 1969, Kaufman 1972, Santos Dias 1993 b, Durden et al. 2008, Owen 2011, Petney et al. 2019).

Sumber: Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories

M: Koch (1844 a) F: Neumann (1901), under the name Aponomma ecinctum, a synonym of Amblyomma fimbriatum N: Schulze (1935 d), under the name Aponomma fimbriatum L: undescribed Redescriptions M: Koch (1847), Schulze (1935 d), Roberts (1964 a, 1970), Kaufman (1972) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma fimbriatum F: Schulze (1935 d), Roberts (1964 a), 1970), Kaufman (1972) and Santos-Dias (1993), all under the name Aponomma fimbriatum N: Roberts (1953), under the name Aponomma simplex, Roberts (1970), under the name Aponomma fimbriatum Note: Amblyomma fimbriatum is treated as a synonym of Amblyomma helvolum in Voltzit and Keirans (2002), a rather unusual taxonomic situation because Amblyomma helvolum is considered a typical Amblyomma possessing eyes, whereas Amblyomma fimbriatum was a member of the former genus Aponomma characterized by eyeless specimens, after Schulze (1935 d), who examined the holotype, and confirmed by Kaufman (1972). Additionally, the male and female of Amblyomma helvolum have two spurs on coxa I and a 3 / 3 hypostomal dental formula, but there is only one spur on coxa I of Amblyomma fimbriatum and its dental formula is 4 / 4. Amblyomma fimbriatum was treated as an invalid species by Neumann (1901, 1911 a), while Robinson (1926) listed it as a synonym of Amblyomma helvolum, a view endorsed by Anastos (1950). Kohls (1957 c) noted the incongruence of these statements and dismissed the synonymy of this tick (under the name Aponomma fimbriatum) as erroneous. See also Amblyomma trimaculatum for its probable confusion with Amblyomma fimbriatum.