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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Haemaphysalis leporispalustris


Tick attachment cement – reviewing the mysteries of a biological skin plug system
By J. Suppan, B. Engel, M. Marchetti-Deschmann, and S. Nurnberger
Biol. Rev., 93, pp. 1056–1076, 2018

Ticks feeding on humans: a review of records on human-biting Ixodoidea with special reference to pathogen transmission
By Estrada-Peña A., Jongejan F.
Exp. Appl. Acarol. 23: 685–715, 1999

Pictorial key to the adults of hard ticks, family Ixodidae (Ixodida: Ixodoidea), east of the Mississippi River
By Keirans J.E., Litwak T.R.
J. Med. Entomol. 26: 435-448, 1989

The genus Amblyomma (Ixodidae) in the United States
By Cooley RA
Journal of Parasitology Vol. 30: 77-111, 1944

Superorder Parasitiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
By Beaulieu F., Dowling A.P.G., Klompen H., de Moraes G.J., Walter D.E.
Zootaxa 3148: 123–128, 2011

The phytophagous and predatory mites (Acari) on Prunus (Rosaceae) in southeastern Canada
By Marie-Ève Garon-Labrecque
Masters Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2017

Mites of Greenhouses - Identification, Biology and Control
By Zhi-Qiang Zhang
CABI Publishing, 2003
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An Introduction to Acarology
By E. W. Baker and G. W. Wharton
Macmillan, 1952