Argas miniatus Koch, 1844

Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, Herrera-Mares, Angel, Robbins, Richard G. & Rebollo-Hernández, Andrea, 2019, The soft ticks (Parasitiformes: Ixodida: Argasidae) of Mexico: species, hosts, and geographical distribution, Zootaxa 4623 (3), pp. 485-525 : 495

Argas miniatus Koch, 1844

SINALOA: ND, hens ( Hoffmann & López-Campos 2000).

Note: The presence of this species in Mexico remains doubtful and is based on a single literature record ( Hoffmann & López-Campos 2000) with limited collection data. According to Muñoz-Leal et al. (2018), A. miniatus is a Neotropical species, which suggests that it may be present in Mexico, because most of the state of Sinaloa lies within the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region ( Morrone 2014). Nonetheless, the issue of whether A. miniatus occurs in Mexico will not be resolved without additional collections and the examination and deposition of specimens in scientific collections.