Open AccessDistribution of the Ixodid Tick Hyalomma Marginatum (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae) in Ukraine
Author(s) -
И. А. Акимов,
Igor Nebogatkin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
vestnik zoologii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2073-2333
pISSN - 0084-5604
DOI - 10.2478/v10058-011-0022-5
Subject(s) - ixodidae , hyalomma , tick , biology , habitat , geography , distribution (mathematics) , ecology , zoology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Distribution of the Ixodid Tick Hyalomma Marginatum (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae) in Ukraine The Northern boundary of the current distribution range of Hyalomma marginatum Koch in Ukraine that passes along the North of Odesa, Mykolayiv, Kirovograd, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts has been specified. The natural habitat is mapped according to different possibilities for mass reproduction. Regular findings of H. marginatum inhabited unusual places may contribute to the spreading of diseases dangerous to humans and animals to new areas, where the latter may be treated as a biological threat of large epidemics and epizootics. Natural habitat of the Ixodidae species has been mapped in consideration of feeding types and the ability of it hosts to travel. Only the areas where all stages are regularly found were included what corroborates Ixodidae species establishing in new areas.