Laboratory of Ecology of Terrestrial and Aquatics Systems (EcoSTAq), Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Badji Mokhtar University, BP 12, 23200, Annaba, Algeria.
Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Calea Mănăștur 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Parasit Vectors. 2022 Aug 27;15(1):302. doi: 10.1186/s13071-022-05424-2.
Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods with a world-wide distribution that are extremely important not only in terms of human and animal health but also economically. In Algeria, information on tick species is scarce.
A systematic literature review was performed using online databases. The information extracted from the databases was was supplemented by information from an original study. Ticks were collected from various hosts and by flagging from January 2018 to December 2019.
To date, in Algeria a total of 36 valid tick species belonging to two families have been recorded: (1) family Argasidae, with three Argas species and nine Ornithodoros species recorded; and (ii) family Ixodidae, with one Dermacentor species, three Haemaphysalis species, 10 Hyalomma species, four Ixodes species and six Rhipicephalus species recorded. The geographical distribution for each species was determined and listed. Eight new tick-host associations were recorded: four for Ixodes inopinatus sensu Estrada-Peña et al. 2014, one for Rhipicephalus bursa, one for R. turanicus, one for Hyalomma marginatum and one for Hy. lusitanicum. To our best knowledge, this study is the first to report the presence of I. inopinatus sensu Estrada-Peña et al. 2014 in Algeria. We also report here for the first time all tick species (Argasidae and Ixodidae) known to be present in Algeria.
This article represents a tool for students and scientists who work in the field of ticks and provides important new data on the distribution of ticks in Algeria.
蜱是世界性分布的专性吸血节肢动物，它们不仅在人类和动物健康方面而且在经济方面都极为重要。在阿尔及利亚，蜱种信息匮乏。
使用在线数据库进行了系统的文献回顾。从数据库中提取的信息补充了原创研究的信息。从 2018 年 1 月至 2019 年 12 月，通过从各种宿主身上采集和用旗标采集来收集蜱。
迄今为止，在阿尔及利亚共记录了 36 种有效蜱种，分属于两个科：（1）软蜱科，有三种 Argas 种和九种 Ornithodoros 种；（ii）硬蜱科，有一种 Dermacentor 种、三种 Haemaphysalis 种、十种 Hyalomma 种、四种 Ixodes 种和六种 Rhipicephalus 种。确定并列出了每个物种的地理分布。记录了 8 种新的蜱宿主关系：4 种为 Ixodes inopinatus sensu Estrada-Peña 等人，2014 年、1 种为 Rhipicephalus bursa、1 种为 R. turanicus、1 种为 Hyalomma marginatum 和 1 种为 Hy. lusitanicum。据我们所知，这是首次在阿尔及利亚报道 I. inopinatus sensu Estrada-Peña 等人，2014 年的存在。我们还首次报道了所有在阿尔及利亚存在的蜱种（软蜱科和硬蜱科）。
本文为在蜱类领域工作的学生和科学家提供了一种工具，并提供了有关阿尔及利亚蜱类分布的重要新数据。
