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There are 493 species in the Metastriata group; 492 of these are distributed among 16 genera, and one species is of uncertain generic status. Only four metastriate genera are established in the Neotropics—Amblyomma, Dermacentor, Haemaphysalis, and Rhipicephalus—and these are treated in alphabetical order.
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Guglielmone, A.A., Nava, S., Robbins, R.G. (2021). Metastriata Group: Genus Amblyomma. In: Neotropical Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72353-8_2
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