Dermacentor steini ( Schulze, 1933b )

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 : 146

37. Dermacentor steini ( Schulze, 1933b) .

An Australasian and Oriental species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Suidae , but they have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders) and rarely from Squamata : Pythonidae , Elapidae and Varanidae ; adults and the undescribed nymph have been recovered from Rodentia : Muridae . Dermacentor steini is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Schulze (1933b), under the name Indocentor steini , and given its current status in Wassef and Hoogstraal (1986b)

F: Schulze (1933b), under the name Indocentor steini

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1986b)

F: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1986b)

Note: Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich (2016) state that the illustrations of Dermacentor steini in Sun and Xu (2013) correspond, in fact, to Dermacentor tamokensis . Both species, Dermacentor tamokensis and Dermacentor steini , are found in Malaysia. Ernieenor et al. (2020) present morphological characteristics and molecular profiles of populations of Dermacentor steini from Malaysia without differentiating this species from Dermacentor tamokensis ; therefore, the data in Ernieenor et al. (2020) require confirmation.