Brown Dog Tick

This 2005 image depicted a male brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus from a superior, or dorsal view looking down on this hard tick’s scutum, or keratinized shield which entirely covers its back, identifying it as a male. In the female, the dorsal abdomen is only partially covered, thereby, offering room for abdominal expansion when she becomes engorged with blood while ingesting her blood meal obtained from her host.Though not the primary vector for Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) like the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, and the Rocky Mountain wood tick D. andersoni, R. sanguineus has been found to be a less-common vector as well. This tick is distributed throughout the world. It also is known to transmit diseases to animals including canine babesiosis, bovine anaplasmosis, East Coast fever and Texas cattle fever. It can also spread tularemia, and tick-borne typhus to human beings.Created: 2005

Description: Brown Dog Tick. Rhipicephalus sanguineus. Date: 27 April 2011, 16:10. Source: Brown Dog Tick. Rhipicephalus sanguineus. Author: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. Camera location36° 26′ 12.3″ N, 5° 26′ 55.95″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 36.436751; -5.448875.

Description: English: Ecdysis. This video shows a female brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) during the ecdysis (moulting) process. Note the contractions of the idiosome, which is driven by regular peristaltic waves, and the exuvia that is being slipped off backwards. Date: 2010. Source: Dantas-Torres F (2010). "Biology and ecology of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus". Parasites & Vectors. DOI:10.1186/1756-3305-3-26. PMID 20377860. PMC: 2857863. Author: Dantas-Torres F. Permission (Reusing this file): : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.:. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 CC BY 2.0 Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 truetrue. Provenance: This file was transferred to Wikimedia Commons from PubMed Central by way of the Open Access Media Importer.: .