ixodes scapularis

Noun ixodes scapularis has 1 sense

• ixodes scapularis(n = noun.animal) 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);
is a kind of hard tick, ixodid
is a member of genus ixodes, ixodes