diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 0672d4abf..610d04c4b 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ Kale Kundert
 Katarzyna Jachim
 Katerina Koukiou
 Kevin Cox
+Kevin J. Foley
 Kodi B. Arfer
 Kostis Anagnostopoulos
 Kristoffer Nordström
diff --git a/changelog/5482.bugfix.rst b/changelog/5482.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c345458d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/5482.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix bug introduced in 4.6.0 causing collection errors when passing
+more than 2 positional arguments to ``pytest.mark.parametrize``.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py b/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py
index 9602e8acf..bfbe71c26 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/mark/structures.py
@@ -104,10 +104,7 @@ class ParameterSet(namedtuple("ParameterSet", "values, marks, id")):
             return cls(parameterset, marks=[], id=None)
 
     @staticmethod
-    def _parse_parametrize_args(argnames, argvalues, **_):
-        """It receives an ignored _ (kwargs) argument so this function can
-        take also calls from parametrize ignoring scope, indirect, and other
-        arguments..."""
+    def _parse_parametrize_args(argnames, argvalues, *args, **kwargs):
         if not isinstance(argnames, (tuple, list)):
             argnames = [x.strip() for x in argnames.split(",") if x.strip()]
             force_tuple = len(argnames) == 1
diff --git a/testing/python/metafunc.py b/testing/python/metafunc.py
index 945ab8627..d90787894 100644
--- a/testing/python/metafunc.py
+++ b/testing/python/metafunc.py
@@ -1765,3 +1765,16 @@ class TestMarkersWithParametrization(object):
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
             ["*test_func_a*0*PASS*", "*test_func_a*2*PASS*", "*test_func_b*10*PASS*"]
         )
+
+    def test_parametrize_positional_args(self, testdir):
+        testdir.makepyfile(
+            """
+            import pytest
+
+            @pytest.mark.parametrize("a", [1], False)
+            def test_foo(a):
+                pass
+        """
+        )
+        result = testdir.runpytest()
+        result.assert_outcomes(passed=1)