Dermacentor hunteri Bishopp 1912
Description
15. Dermacentor hunteri Bishopp, 1912.
A Nearctic species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Bovidae; larvae and nymphs are commonly recovered from Rodentia: Cricetidae. Adult ticks alone have also been collected from Artiodactyla: Cervidae, and Lagomorpha: Leporidae. Dermacentor hunteri is a sporadic parasite of humans.
M: Bishopp (1912)
F: Bishopp (1912)
N: Cooley (1938)
L: Cooley (1938)
Redescriptions
M: Cooley (1938), Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984), Yunker et al. (1986)
F: Cooley (1938), Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984), Yunker et al. (1986)
N: Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984)
L: Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984)
Note: Camicas et al. (1998) treat Dermacentor hunteri as a Nearctic and Neotropical species, but no records from the Neotropics have been found.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Dermacentor
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ixodida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bishopp
- Species
- hunteri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dermacentor hunteri Bishopp, 1912 sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020
References
- Bishopp, F. C. (1912) A new species of Dermacentor and notes on other North American Ixodidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 25, 29 - 37.
- Arthur, D. R. (1960 a) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part V. On the genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma & Margaropus. Cambridge University Press, London, 251 pp.
- Brinton, E. P., Beck, D. E. & Allred, D. M. (1965) Identification of the adults, nymphs and larvae of ticks of the genus Dermacentor Koch (Ixodidae) in the western United States. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 5 (4), 1 - 44.
- Furman, D. P. & Loomis, E. C. (1984) The ticks of California (Acari: Ixodida). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 25, 1 - 239.
- Yunker, C. E., Keirans, J. E., Clifford, C. M. & Easton, E. R. (1986) Dermacentor ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) of the New World: a scanning electron microscope atlas. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 88, 609 - 627.
- Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde. Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Orstom, Paris, 233 pp.