“…burgdorferi ( s.l .) complex were reported from I. fuscipes (reported as Ixodes aragaoi ), Ixodes auritulus , Ixodes longiscutatus , Ixodes neuquenensis , Ixodes paranaensis , I. pararicinus , Ixodes sigelos group, and Ixodes stilesi (see Barbieri et al., 2013 ; Ivanova et al., 2014 ; Sebastian et al., 2016 ; DallʼAgnol et al., 2017 ; Saracho-Bottero et al., 2017 ; Verdugo et al., 2017 ; Flores et al., 2018 ; Cicuttin et al., 2019 ; Muñoz-Leal et al., 2019 , 2020 ; Carvalho et al., 2020 ). Further, “ Candidatus Neoehrlichia chilensis” and hemoparasites of the genus Hepatozoon were found in Ixodes sp.…”