#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)
  supertype:  hard_tick__ixodid  ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
  member of:  genus_Ixodes__Ixodes  type genus of the family Ixodidae
     member of:  family_Ixodidae__Ixodidae  hard ticks
        member of:  order_Acarina__Acarina  mites and ticks
           member of:  class_Arachnida__Arachnida  a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
              member of:  superclass_Chelicerata__Chelicerata  spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs
                 member of:  phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda  jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
                    member of:  kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom  taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

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