Amblyomma variegatum
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Amblyomma variegatum male (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Alan R. Walker
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Author(s): Alan R. Walker
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Amblyomma variegatum (Fabricius, 1794) - (tropical bont tick)
Amblyomma variegatum infestation of the udder of a young cow in Ghana (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Alan R. Walker
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Author(s): Alan R. Walker
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The tick is common in Africa and has spread to Central America with cattle imported from Senegal in the 1800s. It is found on livestock and is considered a vector of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and a number of rickettsia diseases, like Ehrlichia ruminantium (syn. Cowdria ruminantium) causing heartwater, a fatal disease of ruminants.
It may bite humans. The tick is apparently transported by birds like the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis). Management typically involves the frequent application of pour-on acaricides.
