hard tick

Noun
  1. Ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head (synset 101779346)
    is a type of: tick - any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
    subtypes:
    • deer tick, ixodes dammini - a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis
    • ixodes neotomae - a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats
    • ixodes pacificus, western black-legged tick - a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California
    • black-legged tick, ixodes scapularis - parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
    • ixodes ricinus, sheep tick, sheep-tick - parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
    • ixodes persulcatus - bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
    • ixodes dentatus - usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
    • ixodes spinipalpis - usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
    • american dog tick, dermacentor variabilis, wood tick - common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
    belongs to: family ixodidae, ixodidae - hard ticks
    same as: ixodid

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