Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947

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 : 137

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scientific name	Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947
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11. Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947 View in CoL .

A Neotropical species in Guglielmone et al. (2014) but recently discovered also in the Nearctic portion of Mexico by Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2016). All parasitic stages of Dermacentor dissimilis , including the undescribed larva, have mostly been found on Perissodactyla : Equidae . Adults alone have been collected from Carnivora : Canidae . There are no records of Dermacentor dissimilis causing human parasitism.

M: Kohls and Dalmat (1952)

F: Cooley (1947)

N: Cooley (1947)

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

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

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

N: Arthur (1960a)

References

Arthur, D. R. (1960 a) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part V. On the genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma & Margaropus. Cambridge University Press, London, 251 pp.

Cooley, R. A. (1947) Dermacentor dissimilis, a new species of tick from southern Mexico. American Museum Novitates, 1332, 1 - 3.

Guzman-Cornejo, C., Robbins, R. G., Guglielmone, A. A., Montiel-Parra, G., Rivas, G. & Perez, T. M. (2016) The Dermacentor (Acari, Ixodida, Ixodidae) of Mexico: hosts, geographical distribution and new records. ZooKeys, 569, 1 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 569.7221

Kohls, G. M. & Dalmat, H. T. (1952) The male of Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley (Acarina: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 38, 140 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3273832

Yunker, C. E., Keirans, J. E., Clifford, C. M. & Easton, E. R. (1986) Dermacentor ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) of the New World: a scanning electron microscope atlas. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 88, 609 - 627.