Ixodes dentatus Marx, 1899

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 14

69. Ixodes dentatus Marx, 1899

in Neumann (1899).

Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north), 2) USA ( Keirans & Clifford 1978, Durden & Keirans 1996, Guzmán-Cornejo & Robbins 2010, Lindquist et al, 2016).

Keirans & Clifford (1978) cautioned that several records of Ixodes diversifossus correspond, in fact, to Ixodes dentatus , while Keirans (1985b) found that males and females of Ixodes pomerantzi from Ecuador (Neotropical) had been identified as Ixodes dentatus . The Costa Rican record (Neotropical) of Ixodes dentatus in Santos Dias (1958c) was regarded as a misidentification in Guglielmone et al. (2003, 2021). The few specimens of Ixodes dentatus from Canada have been collected from migratory birds, and Lindquist et al. (2016) classified these records as adventive. Therefore, Canada, Costa Rica and Ecuador are not included within the geographic distribution of Ixodes dentatus .