BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
ARACHNIDA
(mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)
ACARINA
(mites)
PARASITIFORMES
(parasitiform mites)
IXODIDA
(ticks)
IXODIDAE
(hard ticks)
Ixodidae
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

IXODIDAE (hard ticks)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Genus Ixodes Latreille, 1795 (hard ticks) 2      
Species Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sheep Tick, Pasture Tick, Castor Bean Tick, Deer Tick)   2 14 7
Species Ixodes trianguliceps Birula, 1895 (Vole and Shrew Tick)     2  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Tick Identification Key: http://webpages.lincoln.ac.uk/fruedisueli/FR-webpages/parasitology/Ticks/TIK/tick-key/index.htm Tick Identification Key

Larvae

Snow, K.R., 1978 Identification of Larval Ticks found on small mammals in Britain

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 general literature references to IXODIDAE (hard ticks)

IXODIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 ARACHNIDA
(mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)		 ACARINA
(mites)		 IXODIDA
(ticks)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 96 feeding and other relationships of IXODIDAE (hard ticks)

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