Hard ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) of Croatia
The present paper is based on original and literature data. In Croatia the first studies on the occurrence of ixodid species were made about 80 years ago. The number of tick species recorded in Croatia considerably increased during the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s of the past century. A total of 21 speci...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3496912 2023-05-15T15:50:16+02:00 Hard ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) of Croatia Krčmar, Stjepan 2012-10-30 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496912 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23372407 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.234.3658 en eng Pensoft Publishers http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496912 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23372407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.234.3658 Stjepan Krčmar http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Article Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.234.3658 2013-09-04T15:51:36Z The present paper is based on original and literature data. In Croatia the first studies on the occurrence of ixodid species were made about 80 years ago. The number of tick species recorded in Croatia considerably increased during the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s of the past century. A total of 21 species of hard tick belonging to 5 genera have been recorded in Croatia. Ixodes is the best represented genus, with seven species recorded. Haemaphysalis is represented by six species, followed by Rhipicephalus with four species. Dermacentor and Hyalomma are represented by two species each. The ticks were collected on 47 different host species. Eleven tick species were collected on Bos taurus and Ovis aries, followed by Capra hircus and Equus caballus with 8 species and Canis lupus familiaris with 6 species. On the remaining 42 host species one, two or three tick species were collected. The most widespread tick is Ixodes ricinus which was found on 25 different host species. Text Canis lupus PubMed Central (PMC) ZooKeys 234 19 57 |
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The present paper is based on original and literature data. In Croatia the first studies on the occurrence of ixodid species were made about 80 years ago. The number of tick species recorded in Croatia considerably increased during the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s of the past century. A total of 21 species of hard tick belonging to 5 genera have been recorded in Croatia. Ixodes is the best represented genus, with seven species recorded. Haemaphysalis is represented by six species, followed by Rhipicephalus with four species. Dermacentor and Hyalomma are represented by two species each. The ticks were collected on 47 different host species. Eleven tick species were collected on Bos taurus and Ovis aries, followed by Capra hircus and Equus caballus with 8 species and Canis lupus familiaris with 6 species. On the remaining 42 host species one, two or three tick species were collected. The most widespread tick is Ixodes ricinus which was found on 25 different host species. |
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