Ixodes loricatus Neumann, 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 : 23

133. Ixodes loricatus Neumann, 1899 .

Neotropical: 1) Argentina, 2) Brazil. 3) Paraguay, 4) Uruguay ( Guglielmone et al. 2011, 2021, Fonseca et al. 2020).

Ixodes loricatus was thought to be distributed from southern Argentina to southern Mexico ( Guglielmone et al. 2003), but it was later found that this species’ geographic distribution is restricted to eastern South America ( Guglielmone et al. 2011).

A record of Ixodes loricatus from southern Mexico in Onofre-Barragán (2015) was treated as a diagnostic error in Guglielmone et al. (2021), while this species’ presence in Colombia ( Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2020) requires confirmation; both countries are here considered outside the range of Ixodes loricatus .