Orange Ant Spider
Adelaide's Shingleback Tick
S1, Female, profile
| Orange Ant Spider | | Adelaide's Shingleback Tick S1, Female, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | |||
| Order: | Ticks (Ixodida) | ||||
| Family: | Hard Tick (Ixodidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Adelaide's Shingleback Tick (Amblyomma limbatum) | ||||
| This Photo: | S2, Female, dorsal, Feeding | ||||
Thank you Owen Seeman for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Interesting how ones 1st instinct is to try and remove this tick. However, they are just as much a part of our native world as the shingleback. There is very little information on ticks, etc, and without proper diagnostics we are just guessing that this is the species due to location & host; all engorged female ticks look pretty similar. Note the tiny legs in these photos, they have 8; as do all arachnids. There is another tick, Bothriocroton hydrosauri, that also attacks Shinglebacks; found elsewhere. | |||||
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