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engorged tick in Tucson - Ixodes

engorged tick in Tucson - Ixodes
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 14, 2012
In urban Tucson, pulled off of dog.

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engorged tick in Tucson - Ixodes engorged tick in Tucson - Ixodes engorged tick in Tucson - Ixodes

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good diagnostic features are not present here, but based on my years in Phoenix and Tucson, this is most-likely Rhipacephalus sanguineus. Everything on dogs (at least at the lower elevations) seemed to be R. sanguineus.

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