Dermacentor bellulus ( Schulze, 1935 )

Petney, Trevor N., Boulanger, Nathalie, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia, Pfeffer, Martin, Eamudomkarn, Chatanun, Andrews, Ross H., Ahamad, Mariana, Putthasorn, Noppadon, Muders, Senta V., Petney, David A. & Robbins, Richard G., 2019, Ticks (Argasidae, Ixodidae) and tick-borne diseases of continental Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4558 (1), pp. 1-89 : 19

Dermacentor bellulus ( Schulze, 1935)

This species, originally described by Schulze (1935), has been variously synonymized ( D. atrosignatus Sugimoto 1937 , D. auratus Teng and Jiang 1991 , and D. taiwanensis Camicas et al. 1998 ) ( Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich 2015c). All life history stages were redescribed by Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich (2015c). Unlike many of the newly described species, a good deal of host and locality data are available for this species ( Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich 2015c). Dermacentor bellulus is known from China, Japan and Nepal, as well as from Lao PDR and Vietnam in continental Southeast Asia ( Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich 2015c; Vongphayloth et al. 2018b). Most collections of adults come from wild pigs (Sus scrofa), while immatures have been recovered from small to medium-sized mammals of the families Canidae , Leporidae , Muridae , Mustelidae and Tupaiidae , as well as from a partridge ( Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich 2015c). All life history stages have been collected during most months of the year.

Descriptions of all life history stages are available in Apanaskevich and Apanaskevich (2015c).