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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Ticks (Ixodida) » Hard Ticks (Ixodidae) » Amblyomma » Gulf Coast Tick (Amblyomma maculatum)
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Tick ID - Amblyomma maculatum
Copyright © 2013 Tony Palmer

Tick ID - Amblyomma maculatum
Bellevue, Fontenelle Forest, Sarpy County, Nebraska, USA
August 3, 2013
Size: 1.5cm body
Large tick. May be deflating after egg laying or long fast? Any help with ID would be appreciated.
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Contributed by Tony Palmer on 9 August, 2013 - 5:06pm
Last updated 7 December, 2019 - 5:52pm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Hard Ticks.
… Blaine Mathison, 7 December, 2019 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

Never mind
Has festoons, so likely not Ixodes. This is definitely a weird tick...
… Tyler Hedlund, 14 March, 2018 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

Ixodes scapularis
No eyes and long, triangular mouthparts
… Tyler Hedlund, 13 November, 2017 - 12:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mites and Ticks.
… Ray Fisher, 20 January, 2014 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

Questions
This tick was lurking the boardwalk at a local nature preserve. I unfortunately could not collect the specimen, and the light was such my little point and shoot camera could only take these photos.
I too was thrown off by the unusual combination of characteristics.
Many people visit Fontenelle Forest every year from all over the country so it might be a stray that dropped off of a visitor and was searching for its next meal.
… Tony Palmer, 15 August, 2013 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

cancel my previous thought.
you know, I think this may just be an aberrant Amblyomma maculatum (with reduced markings on the dorsal shield). It appears to have both festoons and eyes.
… Blaine Mathison, 15 August, 2013 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

 
I see what you mean about the
I see what you mean about the festoons, particularly. Size and leg banding, too. Features of the basis capitulum are odd for A. maculatum, but it's too dark to see them very well. I'd want the specimen for a positive ID.
… Jon Oliver, 15 August, 2013 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

really odd...
before I give my 2 cents, have you had any international travel recently? From somewhere this may have been picked up?
… Blaine Mathison, 15 August, 2013 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

Ixodes
Unfed Ixodes female that I am unfamiliar with. Did you still have the tick?
… Jon Oliver, 13 August, 2013 - 11:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 9 August, 2013 - 6:48pm login or register to post comments

It looks like a Female Lone S
It looks like a Female Lone Star Tick but I'm not 100% sure.

http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/2813/
… bravemerida72, 9 August, 2013 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

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