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Dermacentor circumguttatus Neumann 1897

Description

7. Dermacentor circumguttatus Neumann, 1897.

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Proboscidea: Elephantidae, but they have also been collected from Artiodactyla: Bovidae and Suidae. Dermacentor circumguttatus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1897)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-322 in Zootaxa 4871 (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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References

  • Neumann, L. G. (1897) Revision de la famille des ixodides (2 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 10, 324 - 420.
  • Hoogstraal, H. (1956 a) African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan (with special reference to Equatoria Province and with preliminary reviews of the genera Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma). Research Report NM 005 050.29. 07. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington D. C., 1101 pp.
  • Arthur, D. R. (1960 a) Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part V. On the genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma & Margaropus. Cambridge University Press, London, 251 pp.
  • Elbl, A. & Anastos, G. (1966 d) Ixodid ticks (Acarina, Ixodidae) of Central Africa. Volume IV. Genera Aponomma Neumann, 1899, Boophilus Curtice, 1891, Dermacentor Koch, 1844, Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844. Hyalomma, Koch, 1844 and Rhipicentor Nuttall and Warburton, 1908. Lists and bibliography. Annales du Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Serie 8, Sciences Zoologique, 148, 1 - 412.
  • Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.