Dermacentor variabilis
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Type host: unknown.
Deposition, host records, and locality: HWML 92007, Pm. leucopus /Station Grounds 2013; HWML 92010 and 101692, Pm. leucopus /Station Grounds 2013; HWML 92011, Pm. leucopus /Station Grounds 2013; HWML 92012, Pm. leucopus /Station Grounds 2013; HWML 92059, Pm. maniculatus /Breen’s Flyway 2013; HWML 92060, R. megalotis / Breen’s Flyway 2013; HWML 92061, Pm. leucopus /Breen’s Flyway 2013; HWML 92062, R. megalotis /Breen’s Flyway 2013; HWML 92066, Pm. leucopus /Breen’s Flyway 2013.
Remarks: Dermacentor variabilis is the most common tick on dogs and humans in Nebraska, known from all regions but the northwest panhandle, with larvae and nymphs occurring in high numbers on deer mice, Peromyscus, especially in “river bottom woodlands,” and can be found in association with other tick species on the same host individual (Rapp 1955). We collected 14 adults from humans, and nymphs from many small mammals, especially Peromyscus spp., O. leucogaster, and M. ochrogaster. The raccoon (Procyon lotor (Linnaeus, 1758)) and Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792) are the principal hosts of the adult stage of the tick in Missouri (Kollars et al. 2000). The type host and original locality of this species are not known (Cooley 1938).
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5170591 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- HWML
- Material sample ID
- HWML 92007 , HWML 92010 , HWML 92011 , HWML 92012 , HWML 92059 , HWML 92060 , HWML 92061 , HWML 92062 , HWML 92066
- Scientific name authorship
- Say
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Dermacentor
- Species
- variabilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
References
- Rapp, W. F., Jr. 1955. The status of Dermacentor variabilis in Nebraska. Entomological News 66: 153 - 154.
- Kollars, T. M., Jr., J. H. Oliver, E. J. Masters, P. G. Kollars, and L. Durden. 2000. Host utilization and seasonal occurrence of Dermancentor species (Acari: Ixodidae) in Missouri, USA. Experimental and Applied Acarology 24: 631 - 643.
- Cooley, R. A. 1938. The genera Dermacentor and Otocentor (Ixodidae) in the United States, with studies in variation. Contribution from the National Institute of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratory, United States Public Health Service, Hamilton, Montana. National Institute of Health Bulletin No. 171. 89 p.