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Family:
Soft ticks
Hard ticks

Life stage:
Larvae
Nymph
Adult

Genera
Amblyomma
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Boophilus
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Dermacentor
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Haemaphysalis
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Hyalomma
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Ixodes
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* Species Identification
* Host animals
Rhipicephalus
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TICK IDENTIFICATION KEY

Ixodes species Identification Step 5b:
(adapted from Hillyard, 1996)

Spurs and auriculae shape on basis capitulum


When looking ventrally:   If so:

Ifrontalis-auricle
button shaped auricles

Ifrontalis-spurs
medium sized pointed internal spur (short arrow),medium sized rounded external spur (long arrow)

 

 


 

The basis capitulum has rounded, button shaped auricles (long arrow)

1st Coxa has a medium sized pointed internal spur (short arrow), compared to a medium sized rounded external (long arrow)

 

 The tick is of species:
  Ixodes frontalis
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When looking ventrally:

 

 

 

Iapronophorus-auricle
Fig.A) downward curved auricles

Iapronophorus-spurs
Fig. B) modest internal and external spurs

The basis capitulum has a distinct downward curved auricles (Fig A, long arrows)

1st Coxa has modest internal and external spurs (Fig B, long and short arrow)

 

 The tick is of species:
  Ixodes apronophorus overview
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Other alternatives:
Ixodes ventalloi
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