Dermacentor hunteri Bishopp, 1912

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 138

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.