Ticks

Question 0

Where are the stigmata in ticks

Answer 0

Metastigmata - breathing holes behind the legs

Question 1

How many legs do ticks have at the different life stages

Answer 1

Larvae - 6 legs
Nymph - 8 legs
Adult - 8 legs

Question 2

What is the importance of ticks

Answer 2

Transmit disease

Question 3

What are the two families of tick

Answer 3

Ixodidae - hard tick

Argasidae - soft tick

Question 4

Describe feeding characteristic of hard ticks

Answer 4

Feed one time per life cycle

Feed slowly

Question 5

Ornithadoros

Tick type, Hosts and diseases caused by this tick

Answer 5

Soft tick
Relapsing fever in people (hermsi)
Hosts included rodents (hermsi), cattle, deer (coriaceus)

Question 6

Otobius

Hosts and tick type

Answer 6

(Spinose Ear Tick)
Soft tick
One host
Ears of cattle

Question 7

Which genus of tick has the pre-anal groove

Answer 7

Ixodes

Question 8

What is the only genus of tick to reproduce on the host as opposed to in the environment

Answer 8

Ixodes

Question 9

Ixodes

Tick type, physical characteristics

Answer 9

Hard tick

No eyes, festoons, or ornamentation

Question 10

Haemophysalis

Tick type, hosts

Answer 10

Hard tick

Rabbits and birds

Question 11

Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Common name, Tick type, hosts, preferred climate

Answer 11

Brown dog tick
Hard tick
Feed most often on colored dogs - 3 host tick
Tends to be tropical (now seen in temperate regions)

Question 12

Rhipicephalus annulatus

Alternate name, Tick type, host and disease

Answer 12

Boophilus
Hard tick
Cattle, one-host tick
Vector of bovine piroplasmosis

Question 13

Which tick has been eradicated from the US cattle

Answer 13

Rhipicephalus annulatus

Question 14

Dermacentor veriabilis

Alternate name, tick type, hosts, and associated diseases

Answer 14

American dog tick
Hard tick
Larva and nymph feed on small rodents
Adults feed primarily on dogs, but also horses, people, and wildlife
Vector of Rickettsia rickettsi causing ROCK mountain Spotted Fever

Question 15

Dermacentor andersoni

Alternate name, tick type, hosts and associated disease

Answer 15

Rocky mountain wood tick
Hard tick
dogs? People
RMSF in western states, Q fever, tick paralysis, tularemia and Colorado tick fever

Question 16

Amblyomma

Tick type, Physical characteristics

Answer 16

Hard tick

Long mouthparts, eyes, festoons, ornamented scutum

Question 17

Amblyomma americanum

Alternate name, tick type, hosts, vector of???

Answer 17

Lone star tick
Hard tick
3-Host tick Dogs, people
Vector of RMSF, Cytauxzoon felis (kills cats)

Question 18

Amblyomma maculatum

Alternate name, tick type, host, feeding characteristics, vector of???

Answer 18

Gulf coast tick
Hard tick
3-host tick
Aggressive feeder
Vector of Hepatozoon canis (infected by ingesting tick)