1. Parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
   - sheep-tick, sheep tick

Type of: hard tick, ixodid

Part of: genus Ixodes, Ixodes

Encyclopedia: Ixodes ricinus

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