Ixodoidea (superfamily)

Tick at Guerilla Bay, NSW

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Identification history

Ixodoidea (superfamily) 30 Aug 2025 MichaelMulvaney
Acari (informal subclass) 17 Apr 2024 CarbonAI
Ixodoidea (superfamily) 17 Apr 2024 MichaelBedingfield
Unverified 15 Nov 2019 LisaH

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This was the biggest tick we'd ever seen (on a human). To give a sense of scale, the tick is shown insitu on the neck, close to the victim's earlobe and earing.

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