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Rhipicephalus Sanguineus: Name Species Habitat Diseases Caused Explanation/behaviour

This document summarizes information about several tick species, including their name, species, habitat, diseases caused, and behaviors. It includes details on the Brown Dog Tick, Tropical Cattle Tick, Lone Star Tick, Asian Longhorned Tick, Fowl Tick, and Spinose Ear Tick. For each tick, it provides information on their typical habitat and hosts, as well as any diseases they are known to transmit. Across all ticks listed, habitats include various continents and regions worldwide, and hosts include mammals like dogs, cattle, and deer as well as birds like poultry. Diseases that can be transmitted include babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, lyme disease, and theileriosis. Behaviors

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Rhipicephalus Sanguineus: Name Species Habitat Diseases Caused Explanation/behaviour

This document summarizes information about several tick species, including their name, species, habitat, diseases caused, and behaviors. It includes details on the Brown Dog Tick, Tropical Cattle Tick, Lone Star Tick, Asian Longhorned Tick, Fowl Tick, and Spinose Ear Tick. For each tick, it provides information on their typical habitat and hosts, as well as any diseases they are known to transmit. Across all ticks listed, habitats include various continents and regions worldwide, and hosts include mammals like dogs, cattle, and deer as well as birds like poultry. Diseases that can be transmitted include babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, lyme disease, and theileriosis. Behaviors

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Name Species Habitat Diseases caused Explanation/behaviour

Brown Dog Tick Rhipicephalus  Cosmopolita Canine Babesiosis,  Three host tick
sanguineus n Canine Ehrlichiosis  Adults can
 Host: dog and cause tick survive without
paralysis feeding for >19
months

Tropical Cattle Tick Rhipicephalus  Australia, Babesiosis,  One host tick


microplus West India, Anaplasmosis and  Parasitic period
Mexico, cause tick paralysis on hosts is 17-
Central & 52 days
South
America,
Asia, Africa

Host: cattle,
horses, goats,
sheep
Lone Star Tick Amblyomma  East, Rocky Mountain  Three host tick
americanum Southeast, spotted fever,   Females have
and Midwest Lyme disease and a single silvery-
United tularemia. Can white spot on
States cause tick paralysis. its back, males
 Host: white-
have scattered
tailed deer
spots around
(the primary
the body.
host of
mature ticks)
Asian Longhorned Tick Haemaphysali  East and Theileriosis (in  Three tick host
s longicornis Central Asia, cattle),  The female
Australia, Anaplasmosis, ticks can lay
New Zealand, Ehrlichiasis, Severe eggs and
Fiji, and Fever with reproduce
Hawaii Thrombocitopheni without mating
 Host: cattle, a Virus Syndrome (parthogenesis)
horses, (Huaiyangshan
sheep, pigs, banyangvirus)
cats, dogs
and chickens
Fowl Tick Argas persicus  Europe, Anaplasmosis,  Nymphs and
Africa, and Spirochaetosis and adults only
Asia, parts of cause tick paralysis latch on to the
America host when
 Host: poultry feeding (at
night)
Spinose Ear Tick Otobius  North and Suspected vector  The spinose ear
megnini South of Coxiellaburnetii, tick's parasitic
America, the etiologic agent forms are
India, Africa of Q fever usually found
 Host: dogs within the ears
(on the ear), of the
sheep, goats, definitive host
horses and  Heavily
cattle infested
animals often
shake and rub
their heads
Order: Ixodida

Superfamily: Ixodoidea

1. Families: Ixodidae – hard ticks


2. Argasidae – soft ticks

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