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European dog tick

Ixodes hexagonus

797Records since 2000
JunePeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan40
Feb14
Mar4
Apr41
May123
Jun281
Jul166
Aug25
Sep16
Oct35
Nov36
Dec16

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England39
2Gloucestershire England26
3Kent England25
4East Riding of Yorkshire England21
5Essex England20
6Northamptonshire England18
7Cornwall England14
8Sefton England14
9Norfolk England12
10Worcestershire England12
11North Yorkshire England11
12Nottinghamshire England11
13York England11
14Surrey England10
15Oxfordshire England9
546 England28 Scotland42 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
797
Peak month
June
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Ixodes hexagonus
Group
Mites, harvestmen and other arachnids
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Ixodida
Family
Ixodidae
Genus
Ixodes
Name with authority
Ixodes hexagonus Leach, 1815
Described
1815
Contributing datasets
5

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3156428 · GBIF 2182405