Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann, 1901

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28. Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann, 1901 .

Nearctic: 1) Mexico (north), 2) USA ( Furman & Loomis 1984, Yunker et al. 1986, Kolonin 2009, Guzmán-Cornejo et al. 2016).

Camicas et al. (1998) treated Dermacentor parumapertus as a Nearctic and Neotropical tick, but Guglielmone et al. (2003, 2014) and Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2016) doubted the presence of this species in the Neotropics, since it is based on an unconfirmed record from Chiapas (southern Mexico). Moraru et al. (2018) listed the Chiapas record as valid, an opinion that is not shared here. Portugal et al. (2019) included Canada within the geographic distribution of Dermacentor parumapertus , but no records from Canada have been found to confirm this.

Moraru et al. (2018) presented evidence that more than one species may exist under the name Dermacentor parumapertus , but this was not confirmed in a study conducted by Portugal et al. (2019).