About Dermacentor silvarum

Dermacentor 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 are found in North America.[2]

Hosts of Dermacentor ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, lagomorphs, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans [1].

Dermacentor species 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 [1]. Dermacentor ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis [1].

Picture is of related species D. occidentalis.

Picutre credit: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (Image source)

Taxonomy ID 543639

(Text from Wikipedia.)

More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Taxonomy ID 543639

Data source TIGMIC Group, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology

More information and statistics