title: Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley (Acari: ixodidae), a neotropical tick species, found in Ohio.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: U.S. National Tick Collection, Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro 30460.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Keirans
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Restifo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D003710:Demography; D009820:Ohio; D013987:Ticks / Q000145:classification* / Q000648:ultrastructure