Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories Author Guglielmone, Alberto A. 0000-0001-5430-2889 guglielmone.alberto@inta.gob.ar Author Nava, Santiago 0000-0001-7791-4239 nava.santiago@inta.gob.ar Author Robbins, Richard G. 0000-0003-2443-5271 robbinsrg@si.edu text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-07 5251 1 1 274 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 journal article 235222 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1 43227427-a867-4744-9e4c-2b2302524890 1175-5326 7704190 3326BF76-A2FB-4244-BA4C-D0AF81F55637 70. Amblyomma loculosum Neumann, 1907e . Afrotropical: 1) Madagascar , 2) Mauritius , 3) Réunion , 4) Seychelles , 5) Tanzania ; Australasian: 1) Australia , 2) New Caledonia ; remote islands: 1) Indian Ocean Islands of Cocos, 2) Pacific Ocean Island (central) of Caroline ( Hoogstraal et al. 1976 , Barré & Morel 1983 , Pérez & Fontenille 1984 , Dietrich et al. 2011 ). Identical sequences of the 12S rDNA gene have been obtained from Amblyomma chabaudi and Amblyomma geochelone , parasites of tortoises in Madagascar , but also, surprisingly, from Amblyomma loculosum , a tick usually collected from marine birds ( Kushimo 2013 , Guglielmone et al. 2020 ). Camicas et al. (1998) , Guglielmone et al. (2014) and Guglielmone & Robbins (2018) included the Oriental Region within the range of Amblyomma loculosum because remote islands were regarded as belonging to that region. Barré & Morel (1983) do not include Mauritius within the range of Amblyomma loculosum , but type specimens of this tick were collected there ( Hoogstraal et al. 1976 ), and Amblyomma loculosum is still considered to be present in Mauritius .