48. Amblyomma geoemydae (Cantor, 1847). An Oriental species with a few records from the Palearctic Region, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Testudines: Geoemydidae and Testudinidae, but they have also been recovered from Squamata: Pythonidae. Adults and nymphs have been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae, Cervidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Canidae and Viverridae, Rodentia: Sciuridae, and Squamata: Varanidae; adults alone have been taken from Carnivora: Mustelidae, Pholidota: Manidae, and Rodentia: Hystricidae; and immature stages have been found on Aves (several orders), Carnivora: Felidae, and Squamata: Colubridae. Amblyomma geoemydae is a very rare parasite of humans. M: Neumann (1908b), under the name Amblyomma malayanum, a synonym of Amblyomma geoemydae F: Cantor (1847), under the name Ixodes geoemydae and given its current status in Neumann (1906) N: Schulze (1932b), as Amblyomma geomydae (lapsus) L: Kadarsan (1971) Redescriptions M: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Sun et al. (2016) F: Neumann (1906), Krijgsman and Ponto (1932), Toumanoff (1944), Anastos (1950), Yamaguti et al. (1971), Yamaguti and Kitaoka (1980), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Sun et al. (2016) N: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Fujita and Takada (2007) L: Yamaguti et al. (1971), Teng and Jiang (1991), Voltzit and Keirans (2002), Takahashi et al. (2011) Note: Takano et al. (2014) found molecular differences between Amblyomma geoemydae specimens collected on several Okinawa islands, which may indicate that more than one species exists under this name.

Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340