Dermacentor variabilis ( Say, 1821 )

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 : 147

41. Dermacentor variabilis ( Say, 1821) .

A Nearctic species, but with a few records from the Neotropical Region, whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla (several families), Carnivora (several families), and Perissodactyla : Equidae ; nymphs and larvae are commonly recovered from Rodentia (several families). All parasitic stages have also been collected from Mammalia (several orders) and less often from Galliformes : Phasianidae ; immature stages have been found on Caprimulgiformes: Apodidae , Passeriformes (several families), and Squamata : Agamidae . Dermacentor variabilis is a very frequent parasite of humans.

M: Say (1821), under the name Ixodes variabilis and given its current status in Banks (1907)

F: Koch (1844a), under the name Dermacentor electus , a synonym of Dermacentor variabilis

N: Hooker et al. (1912)

L: Hooker et al. (1912)

Redescriptions

M: Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912), Cooley (1938), Brinton et al. (1965), Arthur (1960a), Furman and Loomis (1984), Yunker et al. (1986), Lindquist et al. (2016)

F: Banks (1908), Hooker et al. (1912), Cooley (1938), Brinton et al. (1965), Arthur (1960a), Furman and Loomis (1984), Yunker et al. (1986), Lindquist et al. (2016)

N: Cooley (1938), Brinton et al. (1965), Arthur (1960a), Furman and Loomis (1984), Lindquist et al. (2016), Dubie et al. (2017)

L: Cooley (1938), Clifford et al. (1961), Brinton et al. (1965), Arthur (1960a), Furman and Loomis (1984), Coley (2015), Lindquist et al. (2016), Dubie et al. (2017)