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title: "Lone Star Tick"
description: "Amblyomma americanum — Insetos e aranhas. Amblyomma americanum, also known as the lone star tick, northeastern water tick, turkey tick, and cricker tick, is a type of tick indigenous to much of the eastern United States and Mexico that bites painlessly and commonly goes unnoticed, remaining attached to its host for as long as seven days until it is fully engorged with blood."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/lone-star-tick
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Lone Star Tick

> Amblyomma americanum — Insetos e aranhas. Amblyomma americanum, also known as the lone star tick, northeastern water tick, turkey tick, and cricker tick, is a type of tick indigenous to much of the eastern United States and Mexico that bites painlessly and commonly goes unnoticed, remaining attached to its host for as long as seven days until it is fully engorged with blood.

- Scientific name: *Amblyomma americanum*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 13949
- Wikidata: [Q1948607](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1948607)
- iNaturalist taxon: [83744](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83744)

## Names

- en: Lone Star Tick
- de: Lone-Star-Zecke
- es: Garrapata estrella solitaria
- fr: Tique étoilée

## Countries with the most observations

US (12246), CA (52), MX (3)

## Summary

Amblyomma americanum, also known as the lone star tick, northeastern water tick, turkey tick, and cricker tick, is a type of tick indigenous to much of the eastern United States and Mexico that bites painlessly and commonly goes unnoticed, remaining attached to its host for as long as seven days until it is fully engorged with blood. It bites aggressively, and its larvae may transfer themselves to skin from discarded clothing that is put back on. The sexually dimorphic adult female lone star tick bears a silvery-white, somewhat star-shaped spot near the center of the posterior portion of its dorsal shield (scutum…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum

## Photo

![Lone Star Tick](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lone-star-tick/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jasper Shide · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151866292

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lone-star-tick?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).