1) Arthropod family 2) Family argasidae 3) Soft ticks
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The Argasidae are a family of ticks containing the soft ticks. They lack the hard scutum present in the hard ticks (Ixodidae). The capitulum (mouthparts-bearing structure) is located on the underside of the animal`s body and is not readily visible. The family contains 193 species, although the composition of the genera is less certain, and more s....
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Family of ticks (superfamily Ixodoidea, order Acarina), the soft ticks, so called because of their wrinkled, leathery, tuberculated appearance that fills out when the tick is engorged with blood. A dorsal shield (scutum) is not present; the mouthparts (capitulum) are subterminal or ventral in a depression (camerostome) that extends above the capitu...
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(ahr-gas´ĭ-de) a family of arthropods, the soft ticks.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ar-gas′i-dē Definitions: 1. Family of ticks (superfamily Ixodoidea, order Acarina), the soft ticks, so-called because of their wrinkled, leathery, tuberculated appearance that fills out when the tick is engorged with blood. Argasidae contains four genera: Argas, Ornithodoros, Otobius, and Antricola; argasid tick...
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[
n] - soft ticks
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Tick - a group of ectoparasitic arachnids.
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family Argasidae noun soft ticks
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