Festoon (tick)

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Female of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus laying eggs. The distinctive festoons on the back edge of the tick can be seen on the left in the picture.

As festoons (of French feston called garland ', also called "Hinterrandläppchen") refers to the garland-like notches on the trailing edge of ticks . They can slip away on saturated females and thus be difficult to spot. The presence and number of festoons are used for the morphological determination of genera and species. They are missing, for example, in representatives of the genera Ixodes and Margaropus .

literature

  • Peter Deplazes, Johannes Eckert, Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Horst Zahner: Textbook of parasitology for veterinary medicine . 3. Edition. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8304-1205-2 , p. 614 .