Dermacentor

American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis, copyright Roy Cohutta Brown.

Belongs within: Ixodidae.

Dermacentor, the wood ticks, is a cosmopolitan genus of ticks including vectors of diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q fever and tularemia (Keirans 2009).

Characters (from Keirans 2009): Basis capituli quadrangular. Eyes present (rarely reduced). Palpi about as long as basis capituli, palpal segment II about as broad as long. Seven or eleven festoons present.

<==Dermacentor Koch 1844 [incl. Anocentor Schulze 1937] KDB02
    |--D. albipictus [incl. D. nigrolineatus] L01
    |--D. andersoni Stiles 1908 SH91
    |--D. auratus JLW91
    |--D. marginatus Sulzer 1776 VR91 [incl. D. daghestanicus E-PE-P91, D. marginatus lacteolus E-PE-P91]
    |--D. nitens B91
    |--D. niveus JLW91
    |--D. occidentalis L01
    |--D. parumapertus F91
    |--D. (Dermacentor) reticulatus (Fabricius 1794) F91, VR91
    |--D. sinicus JLW91
    |--D. ushakovae E-PE-P91
    `--D. variabilis (Say 1821) SH91

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B91] Belozerov, V. N. 1991. Evolution of life cycles in ticks (Ixodidae) due to climate seasonality. In Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 135-139. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[E-PE-P91] Estrada-Peña, A., & R. Estrada-Peña. 1991. Phenotypic variation of Dermacentor marginatus (Ixodidae) in the Palaearctic region. In Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 155-162. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[F91] Filippova, N. A. 1991. A hypothesis for the palaeogenesis of the distribution of the main vectors for Lyme disease. In Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 109-118. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[JLW91] Jiang Z.-J., Li F. & Wang W.-L. 1991. Study on diapause of adult ticks of the genus Dermacentor. In Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 571-579. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

Keirans, J. E. 2009. Order Ixodida. In: Krantz, G. W. & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology, pp. 111-123. Texas Tech University Press.

[KDB02] Klompen, H., S. J. Dobson & S. C. Barker. 2002. A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 status amend. (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Systematic Parasitology 53: 101-107.

[L01] Lindquist, E. E. 2001. Poising for a new century: Diversification in acarology. In Acarology: Proceedings of the 10^th International Congress (R. B. Halliday, D. E. Walter, H. C. Proctor, R. A. Norton & M. J. Colloff, eds) pp. 17-34. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

[SH91] Sonenshine, D. E., J. G. Hamilton, J. S. Phillips & W. R. Lusby. 1991. Mounting sex pheromone: its role in regulation of mate recognition in the Ixodidae. In Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 1 pp. 69-78. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[VR91] Výrosteková, V., J. Řeháček, D. Guryčová & E. Kocianová. 1991. Prevalence of Francisella tularensis in ticks of Slovakia. In: Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 55-59. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.