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Dermacentor rhinocerinus

Description

34. Dermacentor rhinocerinus (Denny, 1843).

An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Peris-sodactyla: Rhinocerotidae; larvae and nymphs have been collected from Rodentia: Muridae.Adults alone have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders), with a rare record from Squamata: Varanidae. Dermacentor rhinocerinus is a very rare parasite of humans.

M: Denny (1843)

F: Neumann (1897)

N: Clifford and Anastos (1964)

L: Keirans (1993)

Redescriptions

M: Dönitz (1910a), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Keirans (1993), Horak et al. (2018)

F: Dönitz (1910a), Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1960a), Elbl and Anastos (1966d), Matthysse and Colbo (1987), Keirans (1993), Horak et al. (2018)

N: Keirans (1993)

L: none

Note: see Amblyomma rhinocerotis for its confusion with Dermacentor rhinocerinus.

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 pages 144-145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4423340

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Denny
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Dermacentor
Species
rhinocerinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dermacentor rhinocerinus (Denny, 1843) sec. Guglielmone, Petney & Robbins, 2020

References

  • Denny, H. (1843) Description of six supposed new species of parasites. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12, 312 - 316. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484309442530
  • Neumann, L. G. (1897) Revision de la famille des ixodides (2 e memoire). Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France, 10, 324 - 420.
  • Clifford, C. M. & Anastos, G. (1964) Ticks. Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba, Mission H. de Saeger, Fascicule 44, 3 - 39.
  • Donitz, W. (1910 a) Die Zecken Sudafrikas. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 16, 397 - 494.
  • 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.
  • Horak, I. G., Heyne, H., Williams, R., Gallivan, G. J., Spickett, A., Bezuidenhout, J. D. & Estrada-Pena, A. (2018) The ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of southern Africa. Springer, Cham, 676 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 70642 - 9