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

Order Ixodida - Ticks


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

Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae): new North American collection records, including the first from the United States
By Mertins J.W., Moorhouse A.S., Alfred J.T., Hutcheson H.J.
J. Med. Entomol. 47: 536-542, 2010

Dermacentor ticks (Acari: Ixodoidae: Ixodidae) of the new world: a scanning electron microscope atlas
By Yunker CE, Keirans JE, Clifford CM, Easton ER
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88: 609-627, 1986
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The Argasidae of North America, Central America and Cuba, Monograph 1
By Cooley RA, Kolhs GM
Am Midl Nat. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame, 21-36, 1944

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

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