Dermacentor imitans Warburton, 1933

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 : 138-139

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).