Studies on The Effect of Some Biotic And Abiotic Factores on The Distribution of Ixodid Ticks In Kafer El-Shiekh Governorate

Examinati0n of )060 cOws & B81, ”butfaloes of v8r1ous ages8exes durin& the period t’rom January 1979 to Decmeber 1980 ID Ka~er El.-3hiekh Governorate revealed that 446 (14.~8~) Cows H (.B5%) bu,ffE\l were infested with different species of” .udt1cks with a tick index of 5.79 ticks/ Cow,s & ;’-.74 tieb/faloesThe systematic examination & identif1catio~ of the colle:led tlcksrevealed toot they were ,It-elated ~o tm.e genera I _genus . ttp.l~ genus t ~alomma& gen·.Rbi2~cephalUl3. 80tt t1c’ks were_It deteoted aalong the materia1s collected frol21 )Joth cows; & buffaloes qequs B.o’a2lp.l uSGenua Boophilus was represented wi th o~ cm species,.Ia tug. -The total num~er of this species c.olleeted trom bothIW6 & bUffaloes \taB 24a ticks with a. tic’k in4ex of 6.39 ticklIt constituted the largest part of the total ticks colle~trom both cows &·buffaloes in Kafer El-Sblokh Governorate. Itrepresented by eg.J4~ of the total collected ticks.