Dermacentor

Dermacentor Temporal range: Neogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Dermacentor occidentalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ixodida
Family:	Ixodidae
Subfamily:	Rhipicephalinae
Genus:	Dermacentor C.L.Koch, 1844  [1]
Type species
Dermacentor reticulatus (Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
AmblyocentorSchulze, 1932 AnocentorSchulze, 1937

L>R, top down: Dermacentor marginatus, Dermacentor variabilis, Dermacentor variabilis, Dermacentor variabilis, Dermacentor andersoni, Dermacentor marginatus, Dermacentor reticulatus, Dermacentor variabilis, Dermacentor marginatus, Dermacentor variabilis, Dermacentor occidentalis

Dermacentor is a genus of ticks in the family Ixodidae, the hard ticks. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with native species on all continents except Australia. ^[2]

Hosts of Dermacentor ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, lagomorphs, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans. ^[2] The American dog tick (D. variabilis) is a member of the genus. ^[3]

Dermacentor species are vectors of many pathogens, including Rickettsia rickettsii , which causes the disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Coxiella burnetii , which causes Q fever, Anaplasma marginale, which causes anaplasmosis in cattle, Francisella tularensis , which causes tularemia, Babesia caballi , which causes equine piroplasmosis, and the Flavivirus that causes Powassan encephalitis. ^[2] Dermacentor ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis. ^[2]

Species

As of 2025, 43 species are placed in the genus: ^[4]

• Dermacentor albipictus Packard, 1869 – winter tick
• Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, 1908 – Rocky Mountain wood tick
• Dermacentor asper Arthur, 1960
• Dermacentor auratus Supino, 1897
• Dermacentor bellulus Schulze, 1933
• Dermacentor circumguttatus Neumann, 1897
• Dermacentor compactus Neumann, 1901
• Dermacentor confragus Schulze, 1933
• Dermacentor dispar Cooley, 1937
• Dermacentor dissimilis Cooley, 1947
• Dermacentor everestianus Hirst, 1926
• Dermacentor falsosteini Apanaskevich, Apanaskevich & Nooma, 2020 ^[5]
• Dermacentor filippovae Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2015 ^[6]
• Dermacentor halli McIntosh, 1931
• Dermacentor hunteri Bishopp, 1912
• Dermacentor imitans Warburton 1933
• Dermacentor kamshadalus Neumann, 1908 ^[7]
• Dermacentor laothaiensis Apanaskevich et al., 2019 ^[8]
• Dermacentor latus Cooley, 1937
• Dermacentor limbooliati Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2015 ^[9]
• Dermacentor marginatus Sulzer, 1776
• Dermacentor montanus Filippova & Panova, 1974
• Dermacentor nitens Neumann, 1897
• Dermacentor niveus Neumann 1897
• Dermacentor nuttalli Olenev, 1928
• Dermacentor occidentalis Marx, 1892 - Pacific Coast tick
• Dermacentor panamensis Apanaskevich & Bermúdez, 2013 ^[10]
• Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann, 1901
• Dermacentor pasteuri Apanaskevich et al., 2020 ^[11]
• Dermacentor pavlovskyi Olenev 1927
• Dermacentor pomerantzevi Serdyukova, 1951
• Dermacentor pseudocompactus Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2016 ^[12]
• Dermacentor raskemensis Pomerantsev, 1946
• Dermacentor reticulatus Fabricius, 1794 – ornate cow tick, ornate dog tick, meadow tick, marsh tick
• Dermacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1843
• Dermacentor silvarum Olenev 1931
• Dermacentor sinicus Schulze, 1932
• Dermacentor steini Schulze, 1933
• Dermacentor taiwanensis Sugimoto, 1935
• Dermacentor tamokensis Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2016 ^[12]
• Dermacentor tricuspis Schulze, 1933 ^[5]
• Dermacentor ushakovae Filippova & Panova 1987
• Dermacentor variabilis Say, 1821 – wood tick, American dog tick

References

1. Don R. Arthur (1960). "The genus Dermacentor: 1. General". The genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma, Boophilus, Margaropus. Ticks. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. pp. 6–37.
2. C. E. Yunker; J. E. Keirans; C. M. Clifford; E. R. Easton (1986). "Dermacentor ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) of the New World: a scanning electron microscope atlas" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 88 (4): 609–627. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
3. W. Chen; P. E. Kaufman (2008). "American Dog Tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Arachnida: Ixodida: Ixodidae)". Entomology and Nematology. Florida Cooperative Extension Service. University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. EENY-443. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
4. Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Robbins, Richard G. (2020-11-05). "Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019". Zootaxa. 4871 (1): 1–322. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334.
5. Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Apanaskevich, Maria A.; Nooma, Wanwipa; Ahantarig, Arunee; Trinachartvanit, Wachareeporn (2021-06-01). "Reinstatement of Dermacentor tricuspis (Schulze, 1933) n. comb., n. stat. (Acari: Ixodidae) as a valid species, synonymization of D. atrosignatus Neumann, 1906 and description of a new species from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand". Systematic Parasitology. 98 (3): 207–230. doi:10.1007/s11230-021-09972-6. ISSN   1573-5192.
6. Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Apanaskevich, Maria A. (September 2015). "Description of a New Dermacentor (Acari: Ixodidae) Species from Thailand and Vietnam". Journal of Medical Entomology. 52 (5): 806–812. doi:10.1093/jme/tjv067. PMC   4668757 . PMID   26336207.
7. Dmitry A Apanaskevich, Stephen C Barker, Dermacentor kamshadalus (Acari: Ixodidae), a Tick of Mountain Goats and Sheep in Western United States, Canada, and Russia, Is a Valid Species, Journal of Medical Entomology, tjaa190, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa190.
8. Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Chaloemthanetphong, Aummarin; Vongphayloth, Khamsing; Ahantarig, Arunee; Apanaskevich, Maria A.; Brey, Paul T.; Hertz, Jeffrey C.; Lakeomany, Khaithong; Sutherland, Ian W.; Trinachartvanit, Wachareeporn (20 May 2019). "Description of a new species of Dermacentor Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) from Laos and Thailand". Systematic Parasitology. 96 (6): 475–484. doi:10.1007/s11230-019-09861-z. PMID   31111306. S2CID   160013314.
9. Apanaskevich, M. A.; Apanaskevich, D. A. (25 February 2015). "Description of New Dermacentor (Acari: Ixodidae) Species from Malaysia and Vietnam". Journal of Medical Entomology. 52 (2): 156–162. doi:10.1093/jme/tjv001. PMC   4481718 . PMID   26336300.
10. Dmitry A. Apanaskevich; Sergio E. Bermúdez (2013). "Description of a new Dermacentor (Acari: Ixodidae) species, a parasite of wild mammals in Central America". Journal of Medical Entomology . 50 (6): 1190–1201. doi: 10.1603/ME13121 . PMID   24843922.
11. Dmitry Apanaskevich, Khamsing Vongphayloth, Pattraporn Jeangkhwoa, Aummarin Chaloemthanetphong, Arunee Ahantarig, Maria Apanaskevich, Paul T. Brey, Khaithong Lakeomany, Wachareeporn Trinachartvanit. 2020. Description of a new species of Dermacentor Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) from the mountains of Laos and Thailand. Systematic Parasitology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-020-09916-6. Last accessed 11 Jun 2020.
12. Dmitry A. Apanaskevich and Maria A. Apanaskevich. 2016. Description of Two New Species of Dermacentor Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) From Oriental Asia. Systematic Parasitology 2016 Feb;93(2):159-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-015-9614-8. Epub 2016 Jan 20.

External links

• S. J. Dergousoff; N. B. Chilton (2007). "Differentiation of three species of ixodid tick, Dermacentor andersoni, D. variabilis and D. albipictus, by PCR-based approaches using markers in ribosomal DNA". Molecular and Cellular Probes . 21 (5–6): 343–348. doi:10.1016/j.mcp.2007.04.003. PMID   17544620.