Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

Research Article

Biogeography of Tick-Borne Bhanja Virus (Bunyaviridae) in Europe

Table 1

Checklist of ixodid fauna in eight European BHAV areas (example of one of the three checklists of biota, viz Ixodidae, Vertebrata, and Tracheophyta).


Tick species	K	A	B	F	C	S	V	G

Ixodes trianguliceps Birula	+
Ixodes arboricola Schulze & Schlottke	+	(+)
Ixodes crenulatus Koch	+	?		+			+	(+)
Ixodes hexagonus Leach	+	(+)	?	+	?	+	+	(+)
Ixodes frontalis Panzer				+			+	(+)
Ixodes simplex Neumann	(+)	+
Ixodes vespertilionis Koch	+	+	+	+			+	+
Ixodes acuminatus Neumann				(+)				+
Ixodes gibbosus Nuttall			+	(+)
Ixodes ricinus (L.)	+	+		+	+	+	+	+
Ixodes laguri Olenev	+	+
Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Haemaphysalis punctata Canestrini & Fanzago	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Haemaphysalis sulcata Canestrini & Fanzago		+	+	+	?	+	+	+
Haemaphysalis erinacei Pavesi		+
Haemaphysalis inermis Birula		+
Haemaphysalis parva Neumann		+	+	+	+			+
Rhipicephalus bursa Canestrini & Fanzago		+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille)		+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Rhipicephalus turanicus Pomerancev		+
Boophilus annulatus Say		+	(+)	+	+	+	+	+
Hyalomma marginatum Koch		+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Hyalomma aegyptium (L.)		+		+
Hyalomma detritum Schulze		(+)				+
Hyalomma scupense Schulze		+	+
Hyalomma lusitanicum Koch					+	+
Hyalomma excavatum (Koch)						+
Amblyomma variegatum (Fabricius)						(+)

The species is –, absent; +, present; (+), rare; ?, dubious in the area. For letter abbreviations of areas, see Section 2.