FIG. 5.
SEM of an Ixodes acuminatus tick collected from a rodent. Note the long, thin, straight inner spur of coxa I extending beyond anterior margin of coxa II, the triangular auriculae, and the fusiform hypostoma with thinly pointed tips.
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