Table 1.
Tick species and their hosts and places in Kurdistan Province, 2012–2013 (N: Nymphs, F: Females, M: Males)
| Species of ticks | Host and Place (%) | Collected samples | Total (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cow | Sheep | Goat | Lamb | Turtle | Poultry | Fold | N | F | M | ||
| R. sanguineus | 17 | 572 | 65 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 200 | 473 | 726 (60.05) |
| R. bursa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 (0.08) |
| Hy. anatolicum | 114 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 61 | 149 (12.33) |
| Hy. asiaticum | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 18 (1.49) |
| Hy. aegyptium | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 11 (0.91) |
| Hy. marginatum | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 (0.08) |
| H. parva | 0 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 31 | 51 (4.22) |
| Hy. sp | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 12 (0.99) |
| O. lahorensis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 122 | 8 | 13 | 143 (11.83) |
| A. persicus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 63 | 21 | 13 | 97 (8.02) |
| Total | 137 (11.33) | 670 (55.41) | 79 (6.53) | 72 (5.95) | 11 (0.90) | 97 (8.02) | 143 (11.82) | 239 (19.77) | 363 (30.02) | 607 (50.21) | 1209 (100) |