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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Ticks (Ixodida) » Hard Ticks (Ixodidae) » Amblyomma
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Is this a male Lone Star Tick? - Amblyomma - male
Copyright © 2010 Karen

Is this a male Lone Star Tick? - Amblyomma - Male
Saint Marys, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, USA
May 25, 2010
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Contributed by Karen on 25 May, 2010 - 12:59pm
Last updated 5 June, 2010 - 6:37pm

rabbit?
seen a photo somewhere that said this was a rabbit tick.
… Dianne Yellowbanks, 16 June, 2010 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Rabbit tick
One distinctive genus-level charcateristic of Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, the rabbit tick, is a lateral elongatation of the the second palpal segment of the mouthparts. This gives each palp a fairly triangular shape.

In the above pictured tick, the palps are long, straight, and with a visible terminal segment markedly shorter than the next proximal one. The mouthparts have been damaged and the chelicerae and hypostome are missing. This does kind of make it look weird, but I'm still confident that this is A. americanum.
… Jon Oliver, 17 June, 2010 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 5 June, 2010 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

I think
Dog Tick
… icnaj, 26 May, 2010 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

 
Not a dog tick
This is an Amblyomma male, based on the characteristics Blaine mentioned and on the distinctive palpal morphology. Most likely, this is A. americanum, the lone star tick. It's not Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick) or Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick).
… Jon Oliver, 27 May, 2010 - 11:56am login or register to post comments

Amblyomma sp.
general shape (rounder), elongated mouthparts and presence of festoons. Deer ticks (assuming Ixodes sp.) do not have festoons.
… Blaine Mathison, 25 May, 2010 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

site
This site on the ticks of Kansas sure makes it look like you have a male deer tick, but I am not an expert.

http://www.vet.ksu.edu/depts/vmth/PDF/mf2653.pdf
… Joe Zito, 25 May, 2010 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

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