Image of Amblyomma Koch 1844
Description:
This photograph depicts an anterior, or head-on view of an engorged female "lone star tick", Amblyomma americanum. Note a number of round, amber-colored eggs that after just having been laid, became attached to the anterior abdomen adjacent to the females scutum. To view additional images related to this tick specie, see PHIL 4407, 8676 through 8680, and 8682 through 8685.
Created: 2006
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- 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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- James Gathany
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