Arthropod parasites of the collared peccary, Tayassu tajacu (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) from New Mexico

Collared peccaries, Tayassu tajacu, collected in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, in 1964 and 1973 were found to be irregular hosts of the sucking louse, Pecaroecus javalii Babcock and Ewing (Haematopinidae), the spinose ear tick, Otobius megnini (Dugès) (Argasidae), and a psoroptid ear mite, heretofore unrecorded from North America, thought to be Trouessalges pecari da Fonseca (Psoroptidae). Also collected were the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus (Packard) (Ixodidae), from a peccary, and O. megnini from a bobcat skin, Lynx rufus (Felidae). A summary of previously unpublished tick (Ixodoidea) collections from the peccary, deposited at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana, is included.