4. Dermacentor atrosignatus Neumann, 1906 .
An Australasian and Oriental species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla: Suidae, but they have also been collected from mammals of several orders, with some records from Squamata: Elapidae and Varanidae . There are provisional diagnoses of the undescribed immature stages collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Suidae, Chiroptera: Pteropodidae, Rodentia: Muridae, and Soricomorpha: Soricidae . Dermacentor atrosignatus is a sporadic parasite of humans.
M: Neumann (1906)
F: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1984b)
N: undescribed
L: undescribed
Redescriptions
M: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1984b)
F: none
Note: see Dermacentor bellulus for its confusion with Dermacentor atrosignatus .