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 24. Amblyomma coelebs Neumann, 1899 . Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north); Neotropical: 1) Argentina , 2) Belize , 3) Bolivia , 4) Brazil , 5) Colombia , 6) Costa Rica , 7) French Guiana, 8) Guatemala , 9) Guyana , 10) Honduras , 11) Mexico (south), 12) Nicaragua , 13) Panama , 14) Paraguay , 15) Peru , 16) Suriname , 17) Venezuela ( Tonelli Rondelli 1939 , Fairchild et al. 1966 , Jones et al. 1972 , Keirans 1985 b , Monroy Lefebre & Cajas González 1988, Need et al. 1991 , Labruna et al. 2005 a , Nava et al. 2007, Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2011 , Lamattina et al. 2014 , Ogrzewalska et al. 2015 , Lopes et al. 2016 , Binetruy et al. 2019 , Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2019, Guglielmone et al. 2021 ). Some records of Amblyomma coelebs have been published under the name Amblyomma bispinosum , a tick regarded as valid in Keirans & Hillyard (2001) , but it is actually a synonym of Amblyomma coelebs , as discussed in Guglielmone & Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2021) , among others, a position also accepted here. Camicas et al. (1998) listed Amblyomma coelebs as occurring only in the Neotropics, but there are records of this tick from the Nearctic portion of Mexico ( Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2011 ). Records of Amblyomma coelebs from northwestern Argentina are, in fact, Amblyomma hadanii , but this species is present in northeastern Argentina , as discussed in Nava et al. (2014b) and Guglielmone et al. (2021) . Enríquez et al. (2020) reported Amblyomma coelebs from Ecuador , but the figures accompanying the paper do not represent bona fide specimens of this tick, and Ecuador is excluded from its range.