Records of Ixodoidea from the Trentino-Alto Adige region in northern Italy

Abstract

There is little information available on the tick fauna (Ixodoidea) from Trentino-Alto Adige (Canestrini, 1890; Reimoser, 1934; Conci, 1951; Starkoff, 1958; Starkoff and Cagnolati, 1962; Petrelli, 1976; Manilla and Sobrero, 1982; Manilla, 1985). No data are available from the province of Bolzano apart from reference in the media to the invasive presence of Argas reflexus (Fab.), which occurred in 1987 in dwellings of the city of Bolzano. In the two provinces of Trentino-Alto Adige Trento (TN) and Bolzano (BZ), the following species have already been recorded: A. reflexus (BZ), Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer) (TN), Haemaphysalis punctata Can. & Fan. (TN), Hyalomma marginatum Koch (TN), Ixodes hexagonus Leach (TN), I. ricinus (L.) (TN), I vespertilionis Koch (TN), Rhipicephalus bursa Can. & Fan. (TN), R. sanguineus (Latr.) (TN).