After having examined a paper of Eastwood (1971), in which he considers the {plusmn}variegatum group{BB} (Ixodidae - Amblyomma) as being only composed by two species (A. variegatum and A. pomposum), contesting therefore the validity of A. superbum, the author proceeds to a critic analysis of the taxonomic problem so created, concluding by the non-legitimacy of the arguments expended by that scientist, reiterating so the criteria all ready postulated by him (1953 and 1969), that the referred group is really constituted by three well distinguished taxa, as follows: a) A. variegatum (Fabricius, 1974) -of all Afrotropical Region and Antilles; b) A. pomposum Dönitz, 1909- of the East Africa; c) A. superbum Travassos Dias, 1953 -from part of Angola and Zaire