Four categories of physiological age were distinguished
in females of Ixodes ricinus (L.) according
to the morphological characteristics: newly
emerged, physio...
The external morphology of the larvae and nymphs of the interspecific hybrids of the European forest and taiga ticks (Ixodes ricinus (L., 1758) and
I. persul...
The mating behavior is demonstrated to be different in Ixodes ricinus L. and I. persulcatus Schulze. In I. ricinus the male and female are found to prefer to copu...