Blood-sucking acarid parasites of the order Ixodida comprising two families: the softbacked ticks (ARGASIDAE) and hardbacked ticks (IXODIDAE). Ticks are larger than their relatives, the MITES. They penetrate the skin of their host by means of highly specialized, hooked mouth parts and feed on its blood. Ticks attack all groups of terrestrial vertebrates. In humans they are responsible for many TICK-BORNE DISEASES, including the transmission of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TULAREMIA; BABESIOSIS; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; and RELAPSING FEVER. (From Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology, 5th ed, pp543-44)
    

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A tick (Ixodes reduvius). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

Tick on Hedgehog

Your guide to protecting your pet against fleas and ticks : Frontline Spot On : protection you both can trust / Merial Animal Health Ltd.

A ventral aspect of the female fowl argas (Argas persicus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

Ixodes ricinus, ventral view, SEM

The Ixodoidea of Canada / by John D. Gregson.

Atlas parazitov krovi zhivotnykh i kleshcheĭ iksodid / V.F. Kapustin.

A tick (Ornithodurus moubata). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

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Ixodes ricinus, ventral view, SEM

The Ixodoidea of Canada / by John D. Gregson.

Atlas parazitov krovi zhivotnykh i kleshcheĭ iksodid / V.F. Kapustin.

A tick (Ornithodurus moubata). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.