Ixodes ricinus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Ixodida
- Family
- Ixodidae
- Genus
- Ixodes
- Species
- Ixodes ricinus
- Scientific Name
- Ixodes ricinus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ixodes ricinus
Ixodes ricinus, commonly known as the castor bean tick, the sheep ked, sheep tick, is a chiefly European species of hard-bodied tick. It may reach a length of 11 mm (0.43 in) when engorged with a blood meal, and can transmit both bacterial and viral pathogens such as the causative agents of Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis.
...Ixodes ricinus in languages:
- Bokmål
- skogflått
- Croatian
- Obični krpelj
- Croatian
- Šumski krpelj
- Czech
- klíště obecné
- Danish
- Skovflåt
- Dutch
- Schapenteek
- English
- Castor Bean Tick
- English
- European Deer Tick
- Estonian
- Võsapuuk
- Finnish
- puutiainen
- French
- Tique du mouton
- German
- Gemeiner Holzbock
- Hungarian
- Közönséges kullancs
- Italian
- zecca dei boschi
- Korean
- 개참진드기
- Latvian
- Suņu ērce
- Lithuanian
- Miškinė erkė
- Lithuanian
- Šuninė erkė
- Polish
- Kleszcz pospolity
- Portuguese
- Carrapato-mamona
- Russian
- Собачий клещ
- Slovak
- kliešť obyčajný
- Slovene
- Navadni klop
- Swedish
- Vanlig fästing
- Ukrainian
- Кліщ собачий
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ixodes acuminatus
- Ixodes acutitarsus
- Ixodes affinis
- Ixodes alluaudi
- Ixodes amarali
- Ixodes amersoni
- Ixodes anatis
- Ixodes angustus
- Ixodes apronophorus
- Ixodes aragaoi
- Ixodes arboricola
- Ixodes aulacodi
- Ixodes auritulus
- Ixodes australiensis
- Ixodes bakeri
- Ixodes bedfordi
- Ixodes bequaerti
- Ixodes boliviensis
- Ixodes brunneus
- Ixodes caledonicus
- Ixodes canisuga
- Ixodes catherinei
- Ixodes cavipalpus
- Ixodes ceratixodes
- Ixodes conepati
- Ixodes cookei
- Ixodes cornuatus
- Ixodes corwini
- Ixodes cuernavacensis
- Ixodes dampfi
- Ixodes dentatus
- Ixodes diomedeae
- Ixodes diversifossus
- Ixodes drakensbergensis
- Ixodes eldaricus
- Ixodes elongatus
- Ixodes eudyptidis
- Ixodes frontalis
- Ixodes galapagoensis
- Ixodes gibbosus
- Ixodes granulatus
- Ixodes hexagonus
- Ixodes hirsti
- Ixodes holocyclus
- Ixodes hoogstraali
- Ixodes kingi
- Ixodes kohlsi
- Ixodes laridis
- Ixodes laysanensis
- Ixodes lividus
- Ixodes loricatus
- Ixodes luciae
- Ixodes marxi
- Ixodes mexicanus
- Ixodes minor
- Ixodes mojavensis
- Ixodes monospinosus
- Ixodes muris
- Ixodes murreleti
- Ixodes myotomys
- Ixodes neitzi
- Ixodes neotomae
- Ixodes nipponensis
- Ixodes nitens
- Ixodes ornithorhynchi
- Ixodes ovatus
- Ixodes pacificus
- Ixodes peromysci
- Ixodes persulcatus
- Ixodes pilosus
- Ixodes procaviae
- Ixodes rhabdomysae
- Ixodes ricinus
- Ixodes rothschildi
- Ixodes rubicundus
- Ixodes rubidus
- Ixodes rugosus
- Ixodes sapularis
- Ixodes scaphixodes
- Ixodes scapularis
- Ixodes sculptus
- Ixodes signatus
- Ixodes simplex
- Ixodes sinaloa
- Ixodes sinensis
- Ixodes spiculae
- Ixodes spinipalpis
- Ixodes sternalixodes
- Ixodes tamaulipas
- Ixodes tancitarius
- Ixodes tanuki
- Ixodes tasmani
- Ixodes texanus
- Ixodes theilerae
- Ixodes tovari
- Ixodes transvaalensis
- Ixodes trianguliceps
- Ixodes trichosuri
- Ixodes turdus
- Ixodes unicavatus
- Ixodes uriae
- Ixodes ventalloi
- Ixodes vespertilionis
- Multidentatus































































































































































