Table 1.
Tick collection from June 2018 to February 2019. A total of 8348 ticks were collected. H. megaspinosa collected mostly in November and February while H. longicornis and H. cornigera were second and third most species collected in June and August.
| H. megaspinosa |
H. cornigera |
H. longicornis |
H. flava |
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| M | F | N | L | M | F | N | L | M | F | N | L | M | F | N | L | ||
| 2018–Jun | No. of ticks | 0 | 1 | 26 | 38 | 8 | 8 | 53 | 8 | 0 | 51 | 293 | 96 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
| 2018–Aug | No. of ticks | 0 | 0 | 1 | 113 | 3 | 1 | 288 | 799 | 0 | 96 | 181 | 689 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 28 |
| 2018–Nov | No. of ticks | 5 | 2 | 191 | 2504 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 408 | 9 | 7 | 153 | 244 |
| 2019–Feb | No. of ticks | 32 | 29 | 865 | 391 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 26 | 15 | 19 | 146 | 27 |
| Total | No. of ticks | 37 | 32 | 1083 | 3046 | 11 | 9 | 344 | 815 | 0 | 147 | 579 | 1219 | 25 | 27 | 358 | 303 |
| Total no. of ticks/Proportion (%) |
4198/50.3% |
1179/14.1% |
1945/23.3% |
713/8.5% |
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H. hystricis |
I. granulatus |
I. turdus |
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| M |
F |
N |
L |
M |
F |
N |
L |
M |
F |
N |
L |
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| 2018–Jun | No. of ticks | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2018–Aug | No. of ticks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2018–Nov | No. of ticks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 37 | ||||
| 2019–Feb | No. of ticks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 216 | ||||
| Total | No. of ticks | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 253 | ||||
| Total no. of ticks/Proportion (%) | 2/<0.1% | 22/0.3% | 289/3.7% | ||||||||||||||