Ixodidae
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The Ixodidae are the family of hard ticks or scale ticks, one of the three families of ticks, consisting of 750 species, . They are known as 'hard ticks' because they have a scutum or hard shield, which the other major family of ticks, the 'soft ticks' (Argasidae), lack. They are ectoparasites of a wide range of host species, and some are vectors of pathogens that can cause human disease.
Species
hard ticks
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderIxodida
- FamilyIxodidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,606
- With media
- 51
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Collections
- FCB-UANL, MNA, UAM, DMNS, INHS, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Research
34,439 papers- Interactions between hard ticks (Ixodidae) and bacterial tick-borne pathogens.Annals of parasitology · 2023
- Ticks (Argasidae, Ixodidae) and tick-borne diseases of continental Southeast Asia.Zootaxa · 2019
- Emerging tickborne viruses vectored by Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae): Heartland and Bourbon viruses.Journal of medical entomology · 2023
- Introduction of the ectoparasite Rhipicephalus pulchellus (Ixodida: Ixodidae) into Connecticut with a human traveler from Tanzania, and a review of its importation records into the United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2023
- Anomalous phenology of Ixodes scapularis (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Mississippi.Journal of medical entomology · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Classification
- Medical importance
- Notes
- See also
- References
- External links
The Ixodidae are the family of hard ticks or scale ticks, one of the three families of ticks, consisting of 750 species, . They are known as 'hard ticks' because they have a scutum or hard shield, which the other major family of ticks, the 'soft ticks' (Argasidae), lack. They are ectoparasites of a wide range of host species, and some are vectors of pathogens that can cause human disease.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ixodidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.