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There are 265 species of Ixodes worldwide. This genus is most speciose in the Afrotropical Zoogeographic Region, where 70 species (26% of the total) occur, 67 of which are found nowhere else, followed by the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region with 61 species (23%), 44 of which are found exclusively in this region. A total of 55 species (21%) are known from the Neotropics, 43 of them endemic to this region.
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Guglielmone, A.A., Nava, S., Robbins, R.G. (2021). Prostriata Group: Genus Ixodes. In: Neotropical Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72353-8_1
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