Image of Lone Star Tick
Description:
This photograph depicts a dorsal view of a female "lone star tick", Amblyomma americanum. Note the characteristic lone star marking located centrally on its dorsal surface, at the distal tip of its scutum. To view additional images related to this tick specie, see PHIL 4407, 8676 through 8682, 8684, and 8685.
Created: 2006
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Chelicerata (chelicerates)
- Arachnida (arachnids)
- Acari (mites)
- Parasitiformes (parasitiform)
- Ixodida (ticks)
- Ixodoidea
- Ixodidae (hard ticks)
- Amblyomma
- Amblyomma americanum (Lone Star Tick)
- Panarthropoda
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- cc-publicdomain
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- James Gathany
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- Public Health Image Library
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