105. Amblyomma rhinocerotis (De Geer, 1778). An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae. Adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla: Hippopotamidae and Suidae, Carnivora: Felidae, Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae, and rarely from Squamata: Pythonidae, and Testudines (unknown family). There are no records of Amblyomma rhinocerotis causing human parasitism. M: De Geer (1778), under the name Acarus rhinocerotis and given its current status in Koch (1844a) F: Neumann (1899), under the name Amblyomma aureum, a synonym of Amblyomma rhinocerotis N: unknown L: unknown Redescriptions M: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Horak et al. 2018) F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Elbl and Anastos (1966a), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Voltzit and Keirans (2003), Horak et al. 2018) Note: Guglielmone and Nava (2014) noted several instances where specimens redescribed as Amblyomma rhinocerotis were actually confused with Dermacentor rhinocerinus and vice versa.

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