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Attached Lone Star Tick - Amblyomma americanum
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Attached Lone Star Tick - Amblyomma americanum
Lexington Wildlife Management Area, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, USA
August 10, 2009
Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum?
Contributed by Bryan E. Reynolds on 26 September, 2013 - 6:15pm
Last updated 14 October, 2013 - 3:07pm

Moved tentatively
The lack of a white macula could be because it is a nymph. Unlike the other I recently commented on, I can see evidence of festoon here even though the tick is in an early engorgement state.

Moved from Ticks.
… Blaine Mathison, 11 October, 2013 - 2:32pm

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