Aponomma draconis, Warburton, 1933

Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world’s hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, Zootaxa 5606 (1), pp. 1-287 : 72-73

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
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scientific name	Aponomma draconis
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Type host: specimens collected in a cave draconis Warburton, 1933 View in CoL , Aponomma

Warburton, C. (1933) On five new species of ticks ( Arachnida Ixodoidea). Ixodes petauristae , I. ampullaceus , Dermacentor imitans , Amblyomma laticaudae and Aponomma draconis , with notes on three previously described species, Ornithodorus [sic] franchinii Tonelli Rondelli , Haemaphysalis cooleyi Bedford and Rhipicephalus maculatus Neumann. Parasitology , 24, 558–568.

Type depository: BMNH: a lectotype (male) and paralectotypes (males and females) were designated by Keirans & Brewster (1981)

Type locality: Komodo Island , Indonesia

Type host: Varanus komodoensis

Current status: a synonym of Amblyomma komodoense ( Guglielmone & Nava 2014) .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Ixodida
Family	Ixodidae
Genus	Aponomma

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