Amblyomma eburneum, Gerstacker, 1873

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 : 75

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0851EDA-FE18-4F87-9245-B108786B22F4
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8263FE48-FF8F-425F-FF23-FE59FC92FD59
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Amblyomma eburneum
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eburneum Gerstäcker, 1873 View in CoL , Amblyomma

Gerstäcker, A. (1873) Gliderthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden) In: Kersten, O. (Ed.), Baron Carl Claus von der Decken’s Reisen in Ost Africa in den Jahre 1859 bis 1865. Vol. 3. Wissenschaftlicher Theil. C.J. Winter’sche Verlaghandlung, Leipzig und Heidelberg, pp. 1–542.

Type depository: ZMB: syntypes (males) ( Moritz & Fischer, 1981)

Type locality: Arusha, Tanzania

Type host: Varanus saurus

Comments: morphological descriptions of Amblyomma eburneum differ among authors ( Guglielmone et al. 2020), and further studies would help to clarify the status of this species.