- Ixodes scapularis, black-legged tick - parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
--1 is a kind of hard tick, ixodid
--1 is a member of Ixodes, genus Ixodes