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Spilotes variabilis Say 1821

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USA & One Health Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA & Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA
  • 2. Instituto de Investigación de la Cadena Láctea (INTA-CONICET), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • 3. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA
  • 4. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 5. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, ruta 34 km 227, CP 2300 Rafaela, Argentina

Description

variabilis Say, 1821, Ixodes

Say, T. (1821) An account of the arachnides of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2, 59–82.

Type depository: unknown: syntypes? (males) but missing (Cooley 1938)

Type locality: USA

Type host: unknown

Current status: a synonym of Dermacentor variabilis and its original name (Camicas et al. 1998). The current status of Ixodes variabilis, as Dermacentor variabilis, was established by Banks (1907).

Notes

Published as part of Robbins, Richard G., Nava, Santiago, Ronai, Isobel, Chong, Kaylin L. & Guglielmone, Alberto A., 2025, Type specimens of the world's hard tick species (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae): collection data and depositories for all valid names and the current status of invalid names, pp. 1-287 in Zootaxa 5606 (1) on page 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215074

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5606.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15215074 (URL)
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References

  • Cooley, R. A. (1938) The genera Dermacentor and Otocentor (Ixodidae) in the United States, with studies in variation. National Institute of Health Bulletin, 171, 1-89.
  • Camicas, J. L., Hervy, J. P., Adam, F. & Morel, P. C. (1998) Les tiques du monde. Nomenclature, stades decrits, hotes, repartition (Acarida, Ixodida). Orstom, Paris, 233 pp.
  • Banks, N. (1907) A catalogue of the Acarina, or mites, of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 32, 595-625. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.32-1553.595