Ticks are currently among the most prevalent blood-feeding ectoparasites, but their feeding habits and hosts in deep time have long remained speculative. Here, we report direct and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of the extinct new famil...
Current knowledge on the taxonomy and ecology of Ixodes ticks of bats is vague. The review by Arthur [2] notes that descriptions are inadequate in many respects. Data on the seasonal activity of the most widespread species, I. vespertilionis have become available only recently [3, 14], and...
Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) have long been known for their high veterinary-medical importance, especially owing to the transmission of tick-borne pathogens which account for significant losses in terms of human and animal health and life. The global economic importance of ticks is particularly high...