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 1 Superfamily Ixodoidea Dugès, 1834