Ixodes Latreille, 1795

Benavides-Montaño, Javier Antonio, Betancourt-Echeverri, Jesus Antonio, Valencia, Gustavo López & Mesa-Cobo, Nora Cristina, 2022, A review of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Colombia: The risk of tick-borne diseases, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (3), pp. 397-437 : 416

The genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795

The genus Ixodes comprises about 240 species of ticks around the world; 46 of them are reported in the tropical region and 14 in Colombia ( Osorno-Mesa 1942). In South America, there are only two ticks as part of the complex Ixodes ricinus , which correspond to Ixodes affinis and Ixodes pararicinus ( Venzal et al. 2005; Benavides et al. 2017b). Some authors report the presence of I. pararicinus , but not I. affinis ( Rivera-Paez et al. 2018a); others such as Gustavo Lopez and E. Benavides noted the presence of both I. pararicinus and I. affinis . In this review, none of the two species are excluded, and more than 10 species of Ixodes genus previously reported in Colombia by Rivera-Paez are mentioned, including: Ixodes tapirus , I. auritulus , I. andinus , I. bocatorensis , I. tropicalis , I. boliviensis , I. brunneus , I. fuscipes , I. lasallei , I. luciae , I. montoyanus , I. pararicinus , I. tapirus , I. tropicalis , and I. venezuelensis . Fifteen additional Ixodes spp. have been reported in Colombia, but they need to be validated and updated.