Ixodes paranaensis is a little-known tick species recently described from specimens collected in Quatro Barras, State of Paraná, southern Brazil. The present report describes the collection of three males and three females of I. paranaensis from a quartzite cave (Gruta dos Fugitivos) in the municipality of Santa Rita de Ibitipoca, State of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. This new record extends the known distribution of I. paranaensis and clarifies our knowledge of the male, which was originally described from a single deformed specimen.
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1 December 2009
New records of Ixodes paranaensis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil
Filipe Dantas-Torres,
Leopoldo F. De O. Bernardi,
Marconi Souza-Silva,
Rodrigo L. Ferreira,
Valeria C. Onofrio,
Darci M. Barros-Battesti,
Marcelo B. Labruna
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Brazil
distribution
Ixodes paranaensis
Ixodidae
new record