Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848 - arthropods
Subphylum Chelicerata Heymons, 1901
Class Arachnida Lamarck, 1801
Superorder Parasitiformes Reuter, 1909 - ticks and ticklike mites
Order Ixodida Leach, 1815 [monotypic] - ticks
Superfamily Ixodoidea Dugès, 1834
1 Family Argasidae Koch, 1844 - soft ticks
2 Family Ixodidae Dugès, 1834
3 Family Nuttalliellidae Schulze, 1935