Table 1. The tick species collected from the studied provinces in 2017–2018.
Genus | Species | Mazandaran N (%) | Golestan N (%) | Guilan N (%) | Kurdistan N (%) | West-Azerbaijan N (%) | Total N (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ixodes | I. ricinus | 1805 (76.6) | 6 (0.4) | 140 (74.9) | - | - | 1951 (46.4) |
Haemaphysalis | Ha. concinna | 6 (0.2) | - | 1 (0.5) | - | - | 7 (0.2) |
Ha. Inermis | 3 (0.1) | - | 1 (0.5) | - | - | 4 (0.1) | |
Ha. punctata | - | - | 1 (0.5) | - | - | 1 (0.02) | |
Hyalomma | Hy. anatolicum | - | 40 (2.7) | - | - | 4 (4.8) | 44 (1.00) |
Hy. marginatum | 56 (2.4) | 65 (4.5) | 16 (8.6) | - | 6 (7.2) | 143 (3.4) | |
Hy. dromedarii | - | 18 (1.2) | - | - | - | 18 (0.4) | |
Hyalomma spp. | - | - | - | - | 3 (3.6) | 3 (0.1) | |
Rhipicephalus | Rh. bursa | 48 (2.0) | 1 (0.1) | - | - | 70 (84.3) | 119 (2.8) |
Rh. sanguineus | 343 (14.5) | 343 (23.6) | 1 (0.5) | 115 (100.0) | - | 802 (19.1) | |
Rh. turanicus | 61 (2.6) | 983 (67.5) | 9 (4.8) | - | - | 1053 (25.1) | |
Rh. annulatus | 34 (1.4) | - | 18 (9.6) | - | - | 52 (1.2) | |
Total | 2356 (100) | 1456 (100) | 187 (100) | 115 (100) | 83 (100) | 4197 (100) |