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Parasite Groups

VMD

Veterinary Microbial Diseases

TIK

Tick Identification Key

 

Protozoa

Nematodes

Cestodes

Trematodes

Insects

  • Mosquitoes
    • Culex spp.
    • Anopheles spp.
  • Sandflies
    • Plebotomus
  • Blackflies
  • Midges
    • Culicoides
  • Horseflies
    • Chrysops
    • Haematopota
    • Tabanus
  • Keds
    • Hippobosca equinum (forest fly)
    • Lipoptena cervi (deer ked)
    • Melophagus ovinus (sheep ked)
  • Fleas
    • Dog
    • Hamster
    • Fowl
    • Hedgehog
    • other
  • Lice
    • human
    • pig
    • pheasant
    • roedeer
  • Bugs
    • Cimex
    • Triatome

Mites and Ticks

 

Artefacts and Pseudo parasites

 

 

 

PARASITE IMAGE COLLECTION

Ticks: hard and soft ticks

Hard Ticks
(Ixodidae)

tick male dorsaltick female dorsal
Ixodus ricinus
male (L) and female (R), dorsal aspect
tick larvatick hypostome
Ixodus ricinus tick larva, ventral aspect----------------------------------------------Ixodus ricinus tick hypostome
tick with larva
Ixodus ricinus female with eggs (L) and larva (on dorsum)
tick on pennyIxodus ricinus larvae (2x) on a one penny coin
borreliaborrelia
Borrelia spp. in canine (L) and human (R) blood sample (100x obj)

Soft Ticks
Argasidae

bat tick ventralbat tick dorsal
Argas vespertillionis, soft tick ventral (L) and dorsal (R) aspect
bat tick larvabat tick hypostome
Argas vespertillionis, soft tick larva ventral aspect-----------------------Argas vespertillionis, hypostome

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Frank L. Ruedisueli

Nottingham Trent University

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