Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann, 1901

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 : 142-143

28. Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann, 1901 .

A Nearctic species whose adults are usually found on Lagomorpha : Leporidae ; larvae and nymphs are also commonly recovered from Leporidae as well as Rodentia : Cricetidae

and Heteromyidae . All parasitic stages have been found on Lagomorpha : Leporidae , and Rodentia : Heteromyidae and Sciuridae ; adults alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Cervidae , Carnivora : Canidae , and Accipitriformes : Accipitridae . Dermacentor parumapertus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Banks (1908)

F: Neumann (1901)

N: Hooker et al. (1912), under the name Dermacentor marginatus parumapertus

L: Hooker et al. (1912), under the name Dermacentor marginatus parumapertus

Redescriptions

M: Hooker et al. (1912, under the name Dermacentor marginatus parumapertus ), Cooley (1938), Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984), Yunker et al. (1986)

F: Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912, under the name Dermacentor marginatus parumapertus ), Cooley (1938), Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984), Yunker et al. (1986) N: Cooley (1938), Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984)

L: Cooley (1938), Arthur (1960a), Brinton et al. (1965), Furman and Loomis (1984)

Note: Camicas et al. (1998) list Dermacentor parumapertus as a Nearctic and Neotropical species, but Guglielmone et al. (2003) and Guzmán-Cornejo et al. (2016) doubt its presence in the Neotropical Region. Moraru et al. (2018) found morphological differences between populations of Dermacentor parumapertus from Texas in relation to specimens from other parts of the USA, but they expressed uncertainty as to whether these signal the presence of different species, and Portugal et al. (2019) found insufficient evidence to support the theory that more than one species exists under the name Dermacentor parumapertus .