Dermacentor andersoni

Rocky Mountain wood tick
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Subclass: Acari
Superorder: Parasitiformes
Order: Ixodida
Family: Ixodidae
Genus: Dermacentor
Species: D. andersoni
Binomial name
Dermacentor andersoni
Stiles, 1908

Dermacentor andersoni, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, is a species of tick.[1] It can cause tick paralysis. This tick is well known as a vector of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever rickettsia in the northwestern U.S. and Canada, the Colorado tick fever virus, and the bacteria which causes tularemia (hunter's disease).[2]

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