Amblyomma americanum

M: De Geer (1778), under the name Acarus nigua, a synonym of Amblyomma americanum F: Linnaeus (1758), under the name Acarus americanus and given its current status in Koch (1844 a) N: Neumann (1899) L: Hooker et al. (1912) Redescriptions M: Koch (1847), Neumann (1899), Salmon and Stiles (1901), Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912), Robinson (1926), Cooley and Kohls (1944), Lindquist et al. (2016) F: Koch (1847), Neumann (1899), Salmon and Stiles (1901), Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912), Robinson (1926), Cooley and Kohls (1944), Sonenshine (1979), Lindquist et al. (2016) N: Salmon and Stiles (1901), Hooker et al. (1912), Cooley and Kohls (1944), Keirans and Durden (1998), Sonenshine (1979), Lindquist et al. (2016), Dubie et al. (2017) L: Cooley and Kohls (1944), Clifford et al. (1961), Sonenshine (1979), Coley (2015), Lindquist et al. (2016), Dubie et al. (2017) Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list Amblyomma americanum as Nearctic and Neotropical, but there are no bona fide records of established Neotropical populations of this species, as discussed in Guglielmone et al. (2003).

A Nearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages are usually found on Mammalia (several orders); adults alone have been collected from Galliformes: Phasianidae, and Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae; nymphs and larvae have been recovered from Aves (several orders). Amblyomma americanum is a very frequent parasite of humans.