Table 1.

Numbers of hard ticks in different seasons collected in Yazd during 2008–2009

Species	Seasons
	spring	summer	autumn	winter	Total	percentage
Hy. dromedarii	98	110	53	65	326	55.92
Hy. marginatum	31	36	8	2	77	13.20
R. sanguineus	59	10	0	0	69	11.84
Hy. anatolicum	6	41	7	3	57	9.78
Hy. detritum	0	10	19	0	29	4.98
Hy. asiaticum	8	6	5	4	23	3.94
D. marginatus	0	0	2	0	2	0.34
Total	202	213	94	74	583	100