Dermacentor atrosignatus, , Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich, 2015

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 : 135

4. Dermacentor atrosignatus Neumann, 1906.

An Australasian and Oriental species whose adults are usually found on Artiodactyla : Suidae , but they have also been collected from mammals of several orders, with some records from Squamata : Elapidae and Varanidae . There are provisional diagnoses of the undescribed immature stages collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , Chiroptera : Pteropodidae , Rodentia : Muridae , and Soricomorpha : Soricidae . Dermacentor atrosignatus is a sporadic parasite of humans.

M: Neumann (1906)

F: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1984b)

N: undescribed

L: undescribed

Redescriptions

M: Wassef and Hoogstraal (1984b)

F: none

Note: see Dermacentor bellulus for its confusion with Dermacentor atrosignatus .