Dermacentor sinicus Schulze, 1931

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 : 145-146

36. Dermacentor sinicus Schulze, 1931 .

A Palearctic species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Erinaceomorpha : Erinaceidae ; adults alone have been collected from Mammalia (several orders); larvae and nymphs have been recovered from Rodentia (unknown family). There are no records of Dermacentor sinicus causing human parasitism.

M: Schulze (1931)

F: Schulze (1931)

N: Jiang and Li (1989)

L: Jiang (1984)

Redescriptions

M: Arthur (1960a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yu et al. (1997)

F: Arthur (1960a), Teng and Jiang (1991), Yu et al. (1997)

N: Teng and Jiang (1991)

L: Teng and Jiang (1991)

Note: Guglielmone and Nava (2014) and Guglielmone et al. (2014) give 1932 as the year of description for Dermacentor sinensis , but the description was printed in 1931 ( Arthur 1960 a, Guglielmone et al. 2015). See Dermacentor asper for its proposed synonymy with Dermacentor sinicus .