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Diagnosis: A large tick when fully engorged; scutum about as long as broad and broadest a little posterior to mid length, with strong lateral carinae; capitulum relatively long porose areas deep, cornua usually absent, but when present at most only mild and rounded; auriculae present; hypostome lanceolate, dentition mainly 3/3; no sternal plate; anal grooves meeting at a point behind; all coxae with an external spur decreasing in size posteriorly; trochanters III and IV usually with small, pointed ventral spurs.
Description: Body Unfed specimens, oval , flat, yellowish, 2.6 x 1.1 mm - 3.8 x 2.6 mm; marginal groove well developed and continuous; hairs small, scattered, most numerous in region of marginal fold. Semi-engorged specimens frequently with body widest behind coxa IV and with a waist at level of spiracles. Fully engorged specimens broadly oval, attaining 13.2 x 10.2 mm, living ticks with blue-grey alloscutum, the dorsum light in colour, a dark band in region of marginal groove. Capitulum Length 1.00- 1.035 mm. Basis dorsally 0.60- 0.68 mm in width, the lateral submarginal fields swollen and frequently delimited from the depressed, median field by ill-defined carinae; posterior margin sinuous, posterolateral angles swollen, sometimes mildly salient; porose areas large, deep subcircular or oval, the longer axis directed anteriorly, interval frequently depressed, at most about the width of one; basis ventrally with posterior margin rounded and with well-defined, blunt, retrograde auriculae. Palps long and slender, some long hairs ventrally; article I rounded and somewhat salient laterally, inner "ring" with dorsal tongue-like prolongation and ventrally semicircular and plate-like, the posterior margin of the plate extending beyond the palp; articles 2 and 3 with no apparent suture, 0.75- 0.85 mm in length and about four times as long as wide, narrowly rounded distally. Hypostome lanceolate and bluntly pointed; dentition mainly 3/3, the innermost file of small, spaced teeth, basally 2/2.
Scutum As wide as or a little wider than long, widest a little posterior to mid length, 1.6 x 1.7 mm- 2.4 x 2.4 mm, flat medianly, convex external to the long, strong lateral carinae; anterolateral margins practically straight, posterolateral margins mildly concave; posterior anle broadly rounded. Punctations numerous , fine, sometimes a little coarser medianly and laterally, shallow rugae frequently present posteriorly. Cervical grooves well defined but short. Emargination moderate. Scapulae blunt. Genital aperture On a level with coxa IV, but in engorged specimens sometimes just posterior to this level. Anal grooves Rounded anteriorly, curving behind anus to meet in a somewhat elongate point. Spiracular plate Subcircular, greatest dimension 0.40- 0.45 mm.
Legs Coxae smooth, I and II sometimes with mild rounded ridges externally, each with a row of long hairs posteriorly and an external spur, longer and more pointed than in male, and decresing in size posteriorly. Trochanter IV (and sometimes III) frequently with a small, ventral spur. Tarsi tapering a little abruptly; length of tarsus I 0.70- 0.80 mm, and of tarsus IV 0.60- 0.78 mm.
Source:
Norbert Fischer
See weblink http://www.tickalert.org.au/ixholdet.htm
Specimen contact point: Museum Victoria
Citation: Walker, K. (2006) Australian paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) Pest and Diseases Image Library. Updated on 9/14/2006 1:57:55 PM. Available online: http://www.padil.gov.au
Created Date: 9/14/2006 1:57:55 PM
Last Updated: 9/14/2006 1:57:55 PM
| Diagnostic Images | |||
Abdomen | Leg Mid | Leg Mid | Mouthparts - dorsal view |
Mouthparts - ventral view | Mouthparts - ventral view | Tarsi | Thorax Above |
| Overview Images | |||
Dorsal | Lateral | Ventral | |
| Other Images | |||
Dorsal view | Engorged adult female dorsal view | Engorged adult female ventral view | Hypostome |
Hypostome ventral diagnostic characters | Ventral view - female | ||
