Argas miniatus

Note: The presence of this species in Mexico remains doubtful and is based on a single literature record (Hoffmann & López-Campos 2000) with limited collection data. According to Muñoz-Leal et al. (2018), A. miniatus is a Neotropical species, which suggests that it may be present in Mexico, because most of the state of Sinaloa lies within the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region (Morrone 2014). Nonetheless, the issue of whether A. miniatus occurs in Mexico will not be resolved without additional collections and the examination and deposition of specimens in scientific collections.