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 ...

Abstract The movement of Ixodes pacificus and Dermacentor occidentalis adult ticks down a hill slope under natural conditions was investigated using the mark-release-recapture (MRR) method. We ...

Mating, spermatophore production, and spermatophore transfer in 2 species of hard ticks, Dermacentor occidentalis and Haemaphysalis leporispalustris (Metastriata), are described. Our results are ...

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 ...

Two Dermacentor occidentalis (Pacific Coast ticks) "collected" during a Sonoma outing: male on the left and female on right, as identified by Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

1. Ricketts H: The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis). JAMA 1906; 47: 358. 2. Parola P, Paddock CD, Raoult D: Tick-borne ...