“…a) All infection records for pentastomids in Brazil including this study, b) includes only studies that sampled more than 15 individuals of the same lizard species. References with number of hosts in parenthesis: Tropidurus hispidus (n = 18, Almeida et al, 2008a; n = 288, Brito et al, 2014b; n = 411, Araujo-Filho et al, 2016), T. semitaeniatus (n = 15, Almeida et al, 2008b; n = 120, Brito et al, 2014b), Micrablepharus maximiliani (n = 75, Almeida et al, 2009a), Mabuya arajara (n = 125, Ribeiro et al, 2012), M. agilis (n = 11, n = 28, Vrcibradic et al, 2002), Cnemidophorus abaetensis (n = 33, Dias et al, 2005), C. ocellifer (n = 40, Dias et al, 2005), Phyllopezus periosus (n = 6, Almeida et al, 2008b; n = 6, Brito et al, 2014b), Hemidactylus mabouia (n = 37, Anjos et al, 2007; n = 30, Almeida et al, 2008c; n = 76, Sousa et al, 2014; n = 277, Bezerra et al, 2016), P. pollicaris (n = 6, Almeida et al, 2008b; n = 22, Sousa et al, 2010; n = 94, Brito et al, 2014b; n = 132, this study) H. agrius (n = 63, this study), Gymnodactylus geckoides (n = 71, this study) and H.brasilianus (n = 24, this study).…”