Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946

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 : 89

74. Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946 .

Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north), 2) USA; Neotropical: 1) Argentina, 2) Belize, 3) Bolivia, 4) Brazil, 5) Colombia, 6) Costa Rica, 7) Ecuador, 8) French Guiana, 9) Guyana, 10) Mexico (south), 11) Panama, 12) Paraguay, 13) Peru, 14) Suriname, 15) Trinidad and Tobago, 16) Uruguay, 17) Venezuela ( Kohls 1960 b, Fairchild et al. 1966, Jones et al. 1972, Varma 1973, Keirans 1985 b, Keirans & Restifo 1993, Venzal et al. 2003, Alvarez et al. 2005, Guglielmone & Nava 2005, Labruna et al. 2005 c, Nava et al. 2007, Mastropaolo et al. 2014, Rodríguez-Vivas et al. 2016, Binetruy et al. 2019, Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2020, Guglielmone et al. 2021).

Several records of Haemaphysalis juxtakochi have been published under the name Haemaphysalis kochi Arag ã o, 1908c, a preoccupied name, or Haemaphysalis kohlsi , a name proposed by Arag ã o & Fonseca (1951) but considered a synonym of Haemaphysalis juxtakochi .

Camicas et al. (1998) treated Haemaphysalis juxtakochi as a Neotropical tick. In fact, the great majority of records are from specimens collected in the Neotropical Region, and its presence in northern Mexico ( Kohls 1960b) and the USA ( Keirans & Restifo 1993) is based on a record from deer in each country. Consequently, Haemaphysalis juxtakochi is provisionally treated here as a Nearctic species.

Molecular evidence in Thompson et al. (2020) indicates that more than one species may exist under the name Haemaphysalis juxtakochi .