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Tropical horse tick

Dermacentor nitens

Classification

Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae

Ticks of domestic animals directly cause poor health and loss of production to their hosts. Ticks also transmit numerous kinds of viruses, bacteria, and protozoa between domestic animals. These microbes cause diseases which can be severely debilitating or fatal to domestic animals, and may also affect humans.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog