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Distribution: Historically, the range of the Southern cattle tick in the US included parts of south Florida and the southern tip of Texas. As a result of state and federal tick eradication programs, the distribution of this tick in the US is currently restricted to the designated quarantine zone of extreme south Texas. Incursions of new ticks on free-ranging endemic and exotic wildlife species from areas across the border in northern Mexico remain problematic today. Rhipicephalus (B.) microplus is found throughout much of Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and Australia.