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Rat tick

Haemaphysalis ratti Kohls, 1948

Status not recordedarachnids

The rat tick (Haemaphysalis ratti) is a species in the family Ixodidae, order Ixodida. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about the rat tick

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the rat tick live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The rat tick is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the rat tick endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the rat tick classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classArachnida
  4. orderIxodida
  5. familyIxodidae
  6. genusHaemaphysalis
  7. SpeciesHaemaphysalis ratti Kohls, 1948

Synonyms Haemaphysalis ratti

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the rat tick

Other species in the same genus Haemaphysalis.

Cattle tick

Haemaphysalis longicornis

IxodidaeNo free photo yet

Bush tick

Haemaphysalis concinna

IxodidaeNo free photo yet

Rabbit tick

Haemaphysalis leporispalustris

IxodidaeNo free photo yet

Wallaby tick

Haemaphysalis bancrofti

IxodidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the rat tick live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the rat tick for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the rat tick?

The rat tick (Haemaphysalis ratti) belongs to the family Ixodidae in the order Ixodida.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Rat tick (Haemaphysalis ratti). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/rat-tick

MLA

“Rat tick (Haemaphysalis ratti).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/rat-tick.

BibTeX
@misc{rat_tick_2026,
  title = {Rat tick (Haemaphysalis ratti)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/rat-tick},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}