Ixodes loricatus Neumann, 1899

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 : 418

Ixodes loricatus Neumann, 1899

Syn.: I. coxaefurcatus and I. didelphidis ( Marques et al. 2004) .

This tick is present in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, south of Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Colombia ( Osorno-Mesa 1942; Barros-Battesti et al. 2006). The immature phases are rodent parasites, whereas the adult phase feeds on marsupials. All the stages have been described as type: BMNH, ENV ( Barros-Battesti et al. 2006). This tick is commonly named “the black-legged tick”. It is a three-host tick and normally it is propagated from Mexico to Argentina ( Colombo et al. 2014) parasitizing Didephidae marsupials, but rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae (rats and mice) are considered important to sustain larvae and nymph stages ( Colombo et al. 2014). This species in Colombia was described by Dr. Bequaert collected from chucha real, Metachirus longicaudatus columbianus , collected in Restrepo, Meta, by Dr. J Boshell M. Other samples were collected from Didelphis marsupialis from Muzo (Boyacá) and Villavicencio (Meta) (Lopez 2017; Osorno-Mesa 1942).