The castor bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) is a species of hard bodied tick in the family Ixodidae, native chiefly to Europe and extending into North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Russia. Unfed adults measure roughly 2.4 to 2.8 millimeters but can swell to about 11 millimeters when engorged with a blood meal, and the species has no eyes and lacks festoons along the body margin. It favors humid woodlands, heaths, and forests where hosts are plentiful, and it is a major disease vector, transmitting the bacteria that cause Lyme disease and the virus that causes tick borne encephalitis.
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Source Wikidata: Castor Bean Tick
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Iceland, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Luxembourg, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikidata: Castor Bean Tick
- Wikidata Q21175, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikipedia 'Ixodes ricinus': may reach a length of 11mm when engorged with a blood meal
- Wikipedia 'Ixodes ricinus': can transmit both bacterial and viral pathogens such as the causative agents of Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis
- Child Taxon Of: Parasitiformes, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source2. Wikipedia: Ixodes ricinus
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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