Western Dog Tick

Dermacentor similis

Classification

Class: Arachnida
Order: Ixodida
Family: Ixodidae

Dermacentor similis is the Western United States tick species corresponding to Dermacentor variabilis in the Eastern United States. Using an integrative taxonomy framework, analyses comprising mitochondrial and nuclear molecular markers and morphology of specimens collected from central-eastern and western United States yielded strong evidence that D. variabilis corresponds to two species, Dermacentor variabilis in the east and Dermacentor similis n.

Distribution

Western Dog Tick — (c) Michael Warner, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michael Warner · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 436Canada · 1Mexico · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Michael Warner, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michael Warner · CC-BY DescriptionDermacentor similis, Wikipedia contributors

Western Dog Tick

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