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Dermacentor
Genus of ticks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dermacentor is a genus of ticks in the family Ixodidae, the hard ticks. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with native species on all continents except Australia. Most are found in North America.[2]
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Hosts of Dermacentor ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, lagomorphs, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans.[2] The American dog tick (D. variabilis) is a member of the genus.[3]
Dermacentor species are vectors of many pathogens, including Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes the disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever, Anaplasma marginale, which causes anaplasmosis in cattle, Francisella tularensis, which causes tularemia, Babesia caballi, which causes equine piroplasmosis, and the Flavivirus that causes Powassan encephalitis.[2] Dermacentor ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis.[2]
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As of 2019, about 41 species are placed in the genus:
- Dermacentor abaensis Teng, 1963
- Dermacentor albipictus Packard, 1869 – winter tick
- Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, 1908 – Rocky Mountain wood tick
- Dermacentor asper Arthur, 1960
- Dermacentor atrosignatus Neumann, 1906
- Dermacentor auratus Supino, 1897
- Dermacentor bellulus Schulze, 1933
- Dermacentor circumguttatus Neumann, 1897
- Dermacentor compactus Neumann, 1901
- Dermacentor confragus Schulze, 1933
- Dermacentor dispar Cooley, 1937
- Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947
- Dermacentor everestianus Hirst, 1926
- Dermacentor filippovae Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2015[4]
- Dermacentor halli McIntosh, 1931
- Dermacentor hunteri Bishopp, 1912
- Dermacentor imitans Warburton 1933
- Dermacentor kamshadalus Neumann, 1908[5]
- Dermacentor laothaiensis Apanaskevich et al., 2019[6]
- Dermacentor latus Cooley, 1937
- Dermacentor limbooliati Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2015[7]
- Dermacentor marginatus Sulzer, 1776
- Dermacentor montanus Filippova & Panova, 1974
- Dermacentor nitens Neumann, 1897
- Dermacentor niveus Neumann 1897
- Dermacentor nuttalli Olenev, 1928
- Dermacentor occidentalis Marx, 1892 - Pacific Coast tick
- Dermacentor panamensis Apanaskevich & Bermúdez, 2013[8]
- Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann, 1901
- Dermacentor pasteuri Apanaskevich et al., 2020[9]
- Dermacentor pavlovskyi Olenev 1927
- Dermacentor pomerantzevi Serdyukova, 1951
- Dermacentor pseudocompactus Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2016[10]
- Dermacentor raskemensis Pomerantsev, 1946
- Dermacentor reticulatus Fabricius, 1794 – ornate cow tick, ornate dog tick, meadow tick, marsh tick
- Dermacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1843
- Dermacentor silvarum Olenev 1931
- Dermacentor sinicus Schulze, 1932
- Dermacentor steini Schulze, 1933
- Dermacentor taiwanensis Sugimoto, 1935
- Dermacentor tamokensis Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2016[10]
- Dermacentor ushakovae Filippova & Panova 1987
- Dermacentor variabilis Say, 1821 – wood tick, American dog tick
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