A review of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Colombia: The risk of tick-borne diseases Author Benavides-Montaño, Javier Antonio Author Betancourt-Echeverri, Jesus Antonio . School of Microbiology and Bioanalysis, Faculty of Health, Industrial Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia; E-mail: jesantbet @ yahoo. com jesantbet@yahoo.com Author Valencia, Gustavo López . Asesor Científico Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, ICMT, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia; E-mail: glopez @ ces. edu. co glopez@ces.edu.co Author Mesa-Cobo, Nora Cristina . Acarology Research group, Immunology and infectious disease group, Agriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Palmira, Palmira, Colombia; E-mail: ncmesac @ unal. edu. co ncmesac@unal.edu.co text Persian Journal of Acarology 2022 2022-07-15 11 3 397 437 journal article 2251-8169 Amblyomma longirostre (Koch, 1844) This species is endemic in South America; its presence has been reported in Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , French Guayana, Guyana , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Surinam , Trinidad y Tobago , Uruguay , Venezuela ( Barros-Battesti et al . 2006 ; Onofrio et al . 2006 ; Lopez 2017). Nymphs parasitize passeriform birds and the adults infest rodents such as Coendou sp. and Sphigurus sp. ( Onofrio et al . 2006 ). In Colombia , it has been reported on a porcupine Cercolabes prehensilis that came from Boyacá ( Osorno-Mesa 1942 ), but there are no new updates. Amblyomma longirostre is a species whose adults mainly parasite rodents of the Erethizontidae family, including the porcupines Coendou prehensilis , although occasionally it has also been found on monkeys of the genus Cebus , cappuccino monkey, and on humans (Lopez 2017). The nymphs have been found feeding on frugivorous bats Artibeus spp. , rodents Sciurus spp. as well as in a wide variety of birds in Central America, South America and the United States ( Venzal et al . 2005 ; Rodríguez-Peraza et al . 2014 ; Lopez 2017). Rickettsiae like R. belli , R. parkeri and R. amblyommii have been found in this tick in Latin America ( Labruna et al . 2004 ; Noden et al . 2015 ). However, there is no new information regarding their presence in Colombia .