The deer tick, more precisely called the black-legged tick, is a hard bodied tick found across much of the eastern half of North America. Its common name comes from the fact that its adult life stages frequently feed on white-tailed deer. In 1979 ticks associated with babesiosis in the northeastern United States were given the scientific name Ixodes dammini and the common name deer tick, but in 1993 that species was shown to be the same as the already-named Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged tick, from the southeastern United States.
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Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to People Living or Extinct Comparison
NatureServe Rank CITES Appendix Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Wikidata: Deer Tick
In Biome
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Ixodes scapularis
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Ixodes scapularisGeographic RangeQuote, Geographic Range
The geographic range of Ixodes scapularis , the deer tick or blacklegged tick, consists of North America as a whole, also known as the Nearctic region.
Sources
1. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Ixodes scapularis
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyPrimary Diet, Ixodes scapularis
Primary Diet carnivore carnivore
Habitat Regions, Ixodes scapularis
Habitat Regions temperate temperate terrestrial terrestrial
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative Impacts
Negative Impacts injures humans carries human disease
Conservation Status: CITES
CITES No special status
In Biome: Temperate Forest, Terrestrial Biomes
Habitat Regions temperate temperate terrestrial terrestrial Terrestrial Biomes forest forest
View the Source 2. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ1497962, descriptionView the Source 3. NatureServe Explorer: Ixodes scapularis
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "GNR"
4. Wikidata: Deer Tick
Child Taxon Of: Parasitiformes, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source 5. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Ixodes scapularis
GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 2182727, category fieldQuote, GBIF taxon key 2182727, category field
"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
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