44. Amblyomma fuscum Neumann, 1907d. A Neotropical species with a peculiar host profile because adult ticks have been found on Anura: Bufonidae, Crocodilia: Alligatoridae, Squamata: Boidae, Colubridae and Teiidae, Cingulata: Dasypodidae, and Carnivora: Canidae, while immature stages have been collected from Carnivora: Canidae, Rodentia: Cricetidae, Echimyidae and Sciuridae, and Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae (Guglielmone & Robbins 2018, Dantas-Torres et al. 2019a). Amblyomma fuscum is a very rare parasite of humans. M: Neumann (1907d) F: Aragão (1936) N: Martins et al. (2010) L: undescribed Redescriptions M: Robinson (1926), Schulze (1936b), Barros-Battesti et al. (2005b), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) F: Barros-Battesti et al. (2005b), Onofrio et al. (2006b), Voltzit (2007), Dantas-Torres et al. (2019b) N: none Note: Amblyomma fuscum is not listed as a valid species in Keirans (1992) and Horak et al. (2002).

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 page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340