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black-legged tick

DEFINITIONS OF: black-legged tick

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n parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)

Synonyms:
Ixodes scapularis
Type of:
hard tick, ixodid
ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
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