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    Dermacentor reticulatus. ( Fabricius, 1794) Synonyms. Amblyocentor Schulze, 1932. Anocentor Schulze, 1937. Dermacentor is a genus of ticks in the family Ixodidae, the hard ticks. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with native species on all continents except Australia. Most are found in North America.

  2. Dermacentor variabilis (Say), also known as the American dog tick or wood tick, is found predominantly in the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, and as its name suggests, is most commonly found on dogs as an adult. The tick also occurs in certain areas of Canada, Mexico and the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. (Mcnemee et al. 2003).

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  4. Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick, is a large, reddish-brown, ornate hard tick. In Canada, it is found from Alberta east to Nova Scotia, and has increasingly pushed west and north in the last decades. Dermacentor variabilis is a three-host-tick with each stage of the life cycle (larvae, nymphs and adults) feeding on a separate host ...

  5. This species is sex­u­ally di­mor­phic. Fe­males range in size from 4 mm be­fore a meal to as high as 15 mm long and 10 mm wide fol­low­ing, and their dor­sal pat­tern­ing only cov­ers the an­te­rior por­tion of their scu­tum (dor­sal shields). Males are smaller and their pat­tern­ing ex­tends over the en­tire scu­tum.

  6. Feb 22, 2021 · Dermacentor variabilis was the predominant Dermacentor species recovered from dogs and cats in every region in the present study. In each of the 44 states from which Dermacentor spp. ticks were submitted, including those in the Rocky Mountain region, more D. variabilis were submitted than D. andersoni as confirmed both morphologically and ...

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