First finding of the tick Amblyomma tigrinum parasitizing a Molina’s hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus chinga (Molina 1782), in South America

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The family Ixodidae, whose members are commonly known as hard ticks, is composed of 758 species distributed around the world, of which 137 are present in the Neotropics, and are represented by the genera Ixodes, Dermacentor, Haemaphysalis, Rhipicephalus and Amblyomma (Guglielmone et al. 2021).Amblyomma spp.inhabit diverse habitat types throughout their geographic distribution (Nava et al. 2017).