Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815
(Hedgehog Tick)

Interactions where Ixodes hexagonus is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
		sucks the blood of			Canis lupus ssp familiaris	Dog, Domestic Dog	Carnivora: Canidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974 Ticks of North-West Europe, Hillyard, P.D., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick					Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Carnivora/Canidae/Canis lupus subsp. familiaris/	Canis lupus subsp. familiaris	dog, domestic dog
		sucks the blood of			Lutra lutra	Otter, European Otter, Eurasian Otter	Carnivora: Mustelidae	Tick infestation (Ixodes) on the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) – a longterm study , Christian, A., 2012	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick					Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker		Foreign	/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Carnivora/Mustelidae/Lutra lutra/	Lutra lutra	otter, european otter, eurasian otter
		sucks the blood of			Neovison vison	American Mink	Carnivora: Mustelidae	Mink, Birks, J., 1986 Tick infestation (Ixodes) on feral Mink (Neovison vison) in central Germany, Christian, A., 2010	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick					Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker		Foreign	/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Carnivora/Mustelidae/Neovison vison/	Neovison vison	American mink
		sucks the blood of			Felis	cats	Carnivora: Felidae	Ticks of North-West Europe, Hillyard, P.D., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick					Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Carnivora/Felidae/Felis/	Felis	cats
female		female sucks the blood of face			Erinaceus europaeus	Hedgehog, West European Hedgehog	Insectivora: Erinaceidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick				female	Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Insectivora/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus europaeus/	Erinaceus europaeus	hedgehog, west european hedgehog			face		Major
female		female sucks the blood of underside			Erinaceus europaeus	Hedgehog, West European Hedgehog	Insectivora: Erinaceidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick				female	Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Insectivora/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus europaeus/	Erinaceus europaeus	hedgehog, west european hedgehog			underside		Major
larva		larva sucks the blood of underside			Erinaceus europaeus	Hedgehog, West European Hedgehog	Insectivora: Erinaceidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick				larva	Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Insectivora/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus europaeus/	Erinaceus europaeus	hedgehog, west european hedgehog			underside		Major
larva		larva sucks the blood of face			Erinaceus europaeus	Hedgehog, West European Hedgehog	Insectivora: Erinaceidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick				larva	Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Insectivora/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus europaeus/	Erinaceus europaeus	hedgehog, west european hedgehog			face		Major
nymph		nymph sucks the blood of underside			Erinaceus europaeus	Hedgehog, West European Hedgehog	Insectivora: Erinaceidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick				nymph	Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Insectivora/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus europaeus/	Erinaceus europaeus	hedgehog, west european hedgehog			underside		Major
nymph		nymph sucks the blood of face			Erinaceus europaeus	Hedgehog, West European Hedgehog	Insectivora: Erinaceidae	Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick				nymph	Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Insectivora/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus europaeus/	Erinaceus europaeus	hedgehog, west european hedgehog			face		Major
		sucks the blood of			Homo sapiens	Man, Human	Primates: Hominidae	Ticks of North-West Europe, Hillyard, P.D., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Ixodida/Ixodidae/Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus/	Ixodes (Ixodes) hexagonus	hedgehog tick					Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker			/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Primates/Hominidae/Homo sapiens/	Homo sapiens	man, human

Author & Year	Title	Source
Avery, R.A., 1974	Identification of Animal Parasites	Hulton Group Keys, 182pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd.
Birks, J., 1986	Mink	24pp, The Mammal Society
Christian, A., 2010	Tick infestation (Ixodes) on feral Mink (Neovison vison) in central Germany	Soil Organisms Vol 82 (2): 209-216.
Christian, A., 2012	Tick infestation (Ixodes) on the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) – a longterm study	Soil Organisms Vol 84 (2): 481-487.
Hillyard, P.D., 1996	Ticks of North-West Europe	Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 52, 178pp, Field Studies Council

Ixodes hexagonus (Hedgehog Tick) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

IXODIDA
(ticks)

ACARI
(mites)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Ixodes hexagonus (Hedgehog Tick)
Genus	Ixodes (hard ticks)
Family	IXODIDAE (hard ticks)
Order	IXODIDA (ticks)
Superorder	PARASITIFORMES (parasitiform mites)
Subclass	ACARI (mites)
Class	ARACHNIDA (mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)
Subphylum	CHELICERATA (a subphylum of arthropods)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Ixodes hexagonus is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Ixodes hexagonus (Hedgehog Tick)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Christian, A.	2010	Tick infestation (Ixodes) on feral Mink (Neovison vison) in central Germany	Soil Organisms Vol 82 (2): 209-216.

Ixodes hexagonus (Hedgehog Tick) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

IXODIDAE
(hard ticks)

IXODIDA
(ticks)

PARASITIFORMES
(parasitiform mites)

ACARI
(mites)

ARACHNIDA
(mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Christian, A.	2012	Tick infestation (Ixodes) on the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) – a longterm study	Soil Organisms Vol 84 (2): 481-487.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Ixodes hexagonus (Hedgehog Tick):

Ixodes
(hard ticks)

IXODIDAE
(hard ticks)

IXODIDA
(ticks)

PARASITIFORMES
(parasitiform mites)

ACARI
(mites)

ARACHNIDA
(mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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