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Argas persicus, also known as fowl tick or poultry tick, is a small soft-bodied tick that is found primarily on domestic fowl such as chickens, ducks, and geese. It was first recorded by Lorenz Oken in 1818 in Mianeh , Persia , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and named Rhynochoprion persicum .
Soft ticks lack the hard scutum present in the hard ticks . [3] The gnathosoma (or capitulum, the mouthparts-bearing structure) is located on the underside of the animal's body and is not readily visible, [3] while in the Ixodidae, the gnathosoma projects forward from the body. The lateral edges of the body are rounded.
Many species of argasid soft ticks are adapted to live in the nest or regular resting sites of their hosts, often waiting for months or even years for the host to return and enable the tick to feed. This nest-dwelling behavior is described as endophilic or nidicolous. [citation needed]
The oldest discovered tick fossils are an argasid bird tick from Late Cretaceous (Turonian ~94-90 million years ago) aged New Jersey amber, [6] and various ticks found in Burmese amber, including Khimaira which does not belong to any living family of tick, the living genus Nuttalliella and the possible nuttalliellid genera Deinocroton and ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the best way to remove a tick of any kind is to use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the creature as close to the skin's surface as ...
The tick feeds at night, ingesting blood to repletion in about 15 minutes. Small mammals are the most common hosts; [ 9 ] this species rarely bites humans, preferring other vertebrates. [ 6 ] The tick has substances in its saliva , such as antihemostatic , anti-inflammatory , and immunomodulatory molecules, which help the tick get blood from ...
Argas walkerae Kaiser & Hoogstraal, 1969, as its common name "fowl tampan" reflects, is a soft-bodied argasid tick primarily parasitizing chickens and other domestic fowl. [1]
The argasid tick Hyalomma marginatum was found in pale crag martin nests on a sarcophagus and an ancient tomb in Egypt. This tick has been implicated in the transmission of Bahig virus , a pathogenic arbovirus previously thought to be transmitted only by mosquitoes. [ 39 ]