Fig. 1.

Arthropod vectors associated to reptiles represented by a Podarcis siculus lizard and Tarentola mauritanica gecko and zoonotic pathogens they may transmit. a) Ixodes ricinus tick larva, b) Ophionyssus natricis mite, c) Sergentomyia minuta sand fly, d) Aedes albopictus mosquito. Red lines represent high importance role of transmission, orange line represents medium importance role of transmission, gray line represents mechanical vector and green line represents transmission of non-pathogenic zoonotic microorganisms. Dashed lines represent neglectable knowledge on actual role of vector. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)