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

11. Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947 .

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)