Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley (Acari: ixodidae), a neotropical tick species, found in Ohio.
Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946, an ectoparasite of deer and other large mammals from Mexico southward through Central and South America, was recovered from the ear of a white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginanus Zimmermann, in Ohio. This represents the first record of H. juxtakochi from the United States.
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U.S. National Tick Collection, Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro 30460.
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D000818:Animals; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D003710:Demography; D009820:Ohio; D013987:Ticks / Q000145:classification* / Q000648:ultrastructure