16. Dermacentor imitans Warburton, 1933 .

A Neotropical species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae, with a single record from Artiodactyla: Cervidae . Dermacentor imitans is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Warburton (1933); see note below

F: Warburton (1933); see note below

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1960a), Yunker et al. (1986), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

F: Arthur (1960a), Yunker et al. (1986), Bermúdez et al. (2018)

Note: Guglielmone et al. (2003) warn that important morphological characters of Dermacentor imitans were omitted in both the original description by Warburton (1933) and the redescription by Arthur (1960a).