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Encyclopedia > Ixodidae

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A male Ixodes ricinus tick (smaller) copulating with a female tick (larger)

Ixodid or hard ticks are ticks of the family Ixodae. Hard ticks are distinguished from Argasidae or soft ticks by their chitinous external shell.


Hard ticks may remain underneath the skin of a host for long periods of time. Most tick-born diseases are carried by hard ticks, although there are some exceptions, such as relapsing fever.


See also: Tick.


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Ixodida - Health Encyclopedia (137 words)
Ixodida is divided into two noteworthy taxa (and a third with only one species).
Bartonella henselae in Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodida) removed from humans, Belluno province, Italy.
Phylogeny of hard- and soft-tick taxa (Acari: Ixodida) based on mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences.
Ticks of Canada - Technology Transfer (6656 words)
The scutum in all instars of Ixodidae often bears a pair of linear depressions, the cervical grooves, that begin closely behind the scapulae and extend posterolaterally to somewhat beyond the midlevel of the scutum.
The lateral and ventral patterns of larval setae in Ixodidae also present 6 setae each, but the proximal "pair" of ventrals, av-3, pv3, is inserted on a small intercalary sclerite in the region of the circumsegmental fissure, instead of on the basitarsus, which bears al-3, pl-3 as well as ad-3, pd-3.
Ixodidae i ee taksonomicheskoe znachenie [ Chaetotaxy of the body of larvae of ticks of the family Ixodidae and its taxonomic significance].
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