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Dermacentor

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Kingdom
  
Order
  
Ixodida

Scientific name
  
Dermacentor

Phylum
  
Subclass
  
Acari

Superorder
  
Family
  
Higher classification
  
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Genus

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Lower classifications
  
American dog tick, Ornate cow tick, Dermacentor andersoni, Dermacentor marginatus

Wood tick or american dog tick ixodidae dermacentor variabilis locomotion


Dermacentor, also known as the American Levi tick, is a genus of ticks in the family Ixodidae, the hard ticks. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with native species on all continents except Australia. Most occur in the Nearctic ecozone.

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Hosts of Dermacentor ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, lagomorphs, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans. The American dog tick (D. variabilis) is a member of the genus.

Dermacentor are vectors of many pathogens, including Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes the disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever, Anaplasma marginale, which causes anaplasmosis in cattle, Francisella tularensis, which causes tularemia, Babesia caballi, which causes equine piroplasmosis, and the Flavivirus that causes Powassan encephalitis. Dermacentor ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis.

American dog or wood tick dermacentor variabilis


Species

As of 2010, there are about 34 species in the genus.

References

Dermacentor Wikipedia