Ixodes cookei Packard, 1869

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 : 13

54. Ixodes cookei Packard, 1869 .

Nearctic: 1) Canada, 2) Mexico (north), 3) USA; Neotropical: 1) Mexico (south) ( Keirans & Clifford 1978, Durden & Keirans 1996, Montiel-Parra et al. 2007, Lindquist et al. 2016).

The presence of Ixodes cookei in the Neotropical Region is based on a male tick collected from the feces of the gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus ( Carnivora : Canidae ) by Montiel-Parra et al. (2007). This record was accepted as valid in Guzmán-Cornejo & Robbins (2010), and is treated as provisionally valid in Guglielmone et al. (2021) and here.