Identifier: lifehistorybiono106hook (find matches)
Title: The life history and bionomics of some North American ticks
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hooker, W. A. (William Anson), 1877- Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry), 1884-1970 Wood, H. P. (Herbert Poland), 1883-1925 Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
Subjects: Ticks
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ophers,Nuttall, a correspondent of Xewstead. and the writers have observedthat they frequently attach between the toes and that they may befound there in clusters of 3 or 4. The writers have found the femalesto engorge to repletion between the toes of puppies. This position isreadily accessible to the ticks and infestation may occur withoutbeing suspected, as even the engorged females are often obscuredfrom view. Many larvae and nymphs of this as well as other speciesattach and engorge in the little pocket on the posterior border ofthe ear. In the immature stages it appears to prefer to attach inthe long hair on the neck rather than in the ears, the ticks frequentlybeing found in cluster of a dozen or more. All three stages may,however, attach to almost any part of the body. 104 LIFE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN TICKS. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. (Fig. 6.) This species is probably the most widely distributed of all theticks, at least of the ixodid ticks, even though largely limited to the
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Fig. 6.—The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus: Distribution in the United States. The largedat 3 show loc dities where the species has been collected in our investigation. The small dots indicatthe probable distribution of the species. (Original.) Tropical and Subtropical regions. Portugal is the type locality of thespecies. In Europe it is also recorded from France, Italy, Sicily,Corsica, and Roumania; in Africa from Egypt, Algeria, Tunis, Nubia,Abyssinia, Zanzibar, German East Africa, Portuguese East Africa, THE BROWN DOG TICK. 105 Transvaal, Natal, Cape Colony, Madagascar, German Southwest Africa,Kamerun, Togo, Congo, and Senegal; in Asia from Arabia, Persia,Malay Archipelago, India, and China. It has also been reportedfrom Australia, the Philippines, and the Hawaiian Islands. In thiscountry it has been commonly taken in southern Texas as far northas Jackson County and San Marcos in Hays County, and as farwest as Del Rio. The species has been collected at several points in

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