Dermacentor auratus Supino, 1897

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 70

4. Dermacentor auratus Supino, 1897 .

Oriental: 1) Bangladesh, 2) Cambodia, 3) China (south), 4) India, 5) Indonesia (west of Wallace’s Line), 6) Laos, 7) Malaysia, 8) Myanmar, 9) Nepal (south and central), 10) Singapore, 11) Sri Lanka, 12) Thailand, 13) Vietnam ( Hoogstraal & Wassef 1985b, Kolonin 1995b, Chen et al. 2010, Burridge 2011, Liyanaarachchi et al. 2015 a, Pun et al. 2018, Vongphayloth et al. 2018b, Petney et al. 2019, Erieenor et al. 2021, Kwak et al. 2021)

Guglielmone et al. (2020) noted that there are many confusing descriptions of Dermacentor auratus , but the description by Arthur (1960a) is especially misleading because the specimens used by that author are of unknown origin. Additionally, Arthur’s (1960a) study is unreliable because he treated all morphologically related taxa as synonyms of Dermacentor auratus .

Dermacentor atrosignatus , described by Neumann (1906) , was relegated to the synonymy of Dermacentor auratus following the study by Apanaskevich et al. (2021). Neumann (1906) was uncertain of the origin of the specimen used to describe Dermacentor atrosignatus but stated that it probably came from Australia, which is insufficient evidence to list this tick as Australasian. Yen et al. (2021) recorded Dermacentor auratus in Taiwan, a record that is treated here as needing verification.