Dermacentor

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Dermacentor

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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Dermacentor
Temporal range: Neogene–present
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Dermacentor occidentalis
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Dermacentor

C.L.Koch, 1844 [1]
Type species
Dermacentor reticulatus
(Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
  • Amblyocentor Schulze, 1932
  • Anocentor Schulze, 1937
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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]

Species

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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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