Richard G. Robbins Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Of the 758 known species of hard ticks (family Ixodidae), 137 (18%) inhabit the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region, which stretches from Mexico to southern Argentina and Chile, including the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the Galápagos Islands. This biodiverse area has drawn significant scientific interest, resulting in extensive literature on Neotropical ticks, which are critical vectors of human disease and important in veterinary contexts. However, much of this information is diffuse and often inaccessible to non-specialists. This book consolidates essential information on every Neotropical tick species, detailing original taxonomic descriptions, geographic distributions, host relationships, and human parasitism. It also includes analyses of tick distributions by country and subregion, a review of invasive tick species, and a discussion of the numerous names used in the literature. The text concludes with a comprehensive tabulation of known hosts of Neotropical Ixodidae, detailing tick life history stages collected from each host. This resource serves as an invaluable reference for biologists and biomedical personnel seeking to understand the Neotropical tick fauna. The structure includes chapters focusing on the genera Ixodes, Amblyomma, and others, geographic distributions, and host-parasitism relationships, culminating in a thorough analysis of host utilization and tick associations.