Dermacentor compactus Neumann, 1901

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, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 136

8. Dermacentor compactus Neumann, 1901 .

An Oriental species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Suidae ; larvae and nymphs are usually collected from Rodentia : Sciuridae . Adult ticks have been recovered from Mammalia (several orders), with rare records from Squamata : Pythonidae ; immature stages have also been taken from Carnivora : Canidae , Rodentia : Muridae , and Squamata : Colubridae . Dermacentor compactus is a rare parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1901)

F: Neumann (1901)

N: Apanaskevich (2016)

L: Apanaskevich (2016)

Redescriptions

M: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1983), Sun and Xu (2013)

F: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1983), Sun and Xu (2013)

N: none

L: none

Note: see Dermacentor filippovae and Dermacentor limbooliati for their confusion with Dermacentor compactus .