Soft ticks, also known as argasid ticks, are small arachnids that are external parasites living by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. They are vectors for several diseases affecting humans and livestock, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and African tick bite fever. Different species of soft ticks can be distinguished based on features seen from above and below such as patterns on their dorsal and ventral sides.

1. Soft Ticks
Adnan Shahid
Roll no. 50
Submitted to: Sir Asif Iqbal

2.  Ticks are small arachnids in
the order Parasitiformes. Along with mites. Ticks
are ectoparasites (external parasites), living
by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and
sometimes reptiles and amphibians. Ticks
are vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme
disease, Q fever (rare; more commonly transmitted by
infected excreta), Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, African tick bite fever, Crimean Congo
hemorrhagic fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing
fever, babesiosis, as well as bovine anaplasmosis and
probably the Heartland virus. Some species
the Australian paralysis tick, and can cause paralysis.

6. Argas persicus (dorsal) Argas persicus (ventral)

7. Alectrobius capensis (dorsal) Alectrobius capensis (ventral)

8. Alectrobius capensis (dorsal)
Alectrobius capensis (ventral)

9. Ornithodoros sp. (dorsal) Ornithodoros sp. (ventral)

10. Otobius megnini (dorsal)
Otobius megnini (ventral)