Ixodidae

Ixodes ricinus Linnaeus, 1758

Ixodes ricinus Linnaeus, 1758 is a tick species native to Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Russia and Iceland.

Ixodes scapularis Say, 1821

Ixodes scapularis (deer tick) is a tick species with specific morphology and range shifting due to climate change.

Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls, 1943

Ixodes pacificus, the western black-legged tick, is a hard tick found in western North America with a three-year four-stage life cycle.

Ixodes holocyclus Neumann, 1899

Ixodes holocyclus, the Australian paralysis tick, is a medically important tick found along eastern Australia that can cause paralysis and mammalian meat allergy.

Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930

Ixodes persulcatus (taiga tick) is a sexually dimorphic hard-bodied tick found from Europe across Asia to China and Japan that hosts many animals.

Dermacentor variabilis Say, 1821

Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick, is a disease-carrying hard tick found primarily in eastern North America.

Dermacentor occidentalis Marx, 1892

Dermacentor occidentalis, the Pacific coast tick, is a wood tick of Ixodidae found in coastal California, that hosts humans.

Dermacentor albipictus Packard, 1869

Dermacentor albipictus, the winter tick, is a sexually dimorphic tick with distinct color and size differences between adult males and females.

Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, 1908

Dermacentor andersoni is a sexually dimorphic, polymorphic three-host hard tick whose adult stage feeds on humans.

Dermacentor reticulatus Fabricius, 1794

Dermacentor reticulatus is an ornate ixodid tick, the type species of its genus, found in wooded areas of Europe and Western Asia.

Dermacentor similis Lado, Glon & Klompen, 2021

Dermacentor similis is a newly described tick species from the Western US, split from the eastern species Dermacentor variabilis.

Amblyomma americanum Linnaeus, 1758

Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, is a blood-feeding tick native to eastern North America that carries several human disease pathogens.

Amblyomma maculatum Koch, 1844

Amblyomma maculatum, the Gulf Coast tick, is a tick species with a range of recorded hosts, found to carry human pathogen Rickettsia parkeri in Delaware in 2013.

Amblyomma triguttatum Koch, 1844

Amblyomma triguttatum, the ornate kangaroo tick, is a blood-feeding hard tick native to multiple regions of Australia.

Amblyomma cajennense Fabricius, 1787

Amblyomma cajennense, the Cayenne tick, is a New World tick now recognized as a species complex that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844

Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, 1844 is a southern African hard tick with distinct male and female color and size traits.

Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille, 1806

Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the brown dog tick, is a widespread tick that is an important disease vector for dogs and sometimes humans.

Hyalomma marginatum C.L.Koch, 1844

Hyalomma marginatum is a hard-bodied tick that can carry Bahig virus and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus, with a widespread subspecies across parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, 1901

Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned tick, is an invasive ixodid parasitic tick that can carry human tickborne diseases.