Table 2.
Distribution of tick species per agroecological zone
| Tick genus | Tick species | No. of ticks collected (%) | Sex | AEZ I | AEZ II | AEZ III | AEZ IV | AEZ V | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetation type | |||||||||
| Dry savannah, steppes (%) | Savannah, degraded forest (%) | Savannah, degraded forest (%) | Evergreen forest (%) | Humid forest-savannah mosaic (%) | |||||
| Female | Male | ||||||||
| Amblyomma | A. variegatum | 4210 (59.4) | 1077 | 3133 | 499 (29.9) | 2735 (96.5) | 243 (43.1) | 55 (34.8) | 678 (36.3) |
| Rhipicephalus | R. microplus | 1112 (15.6) | 1043 | 69 | 0 (0) | 5 (0.2) | 288 (51.1) | 103 (65.2) | 716 (38.3) |
| R. decoloratus | 708 (10.0) | 686 | 22 | 167 (10.0) | 73 (2.6) | 18 (3.2) | 0 (0) | 450 (24.1) | |
| R. annulatus | 28 (0.4) | 13 | 15 | 9 (0.5) | 0 (0) | 2 (0.4) | 0 (0) | 17 (0.9) | |
| R. sanguineus | 19 (0.3) | 9 | 10 | 5 (0.3) | 4 (0.1) | 5 (0.9) | 0 (0) | 5 (0.3) | |
| Rhipicephalus spp. | 33 (0.5) | 15 | 18 | 11 (0.7) | 13 (0.5) | 8 (1.4) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Hyalomma | H. rufipes | 210 (3.0) | 59 | 151 | 207 (12.4) | 3 (0.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| H. truncatum | 768 (10.8) | 250 | 518 | 766 (46.0) | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Hyalomma spp. | 3 (0) | 0 | 3 | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Total | 7091 (100) | 3152 | 3939 | 1667 | 2834 | 564 | 158 | 1868 | |