Study on intensity and variety of sheep ticks in kazeroon

Kazeroon in the southwest city of the Fars province is the second regional Iran` climate.. The Present investigation was performed to order to determine the diversity and intensity of ticks sheep''s in kazeroon city.For the study¡ the sheep''s from central region and Khesht¡ Konartakhte¡ Baladeh¡ Chenashahigan¡ Kohmare and Nodan regions during October 2008 to September 2009¡ where examined in different parts of the body. Overall 2300 evaluated sheep''s¡ 227 sheep''s (9.86 %) were infested to tick in witch 881 ticks were collected. From this amount of ticks 394 ticks were male (44.8 %) and 487 ticks were female (55.2 %).The identified species were as follows: Rhipicephalus bursa (59 %)¡ R.sanguianus (13 %)¡ Hyaloma asiaticum asiaticum (18%)¡ H. anatolicum anatolicum (6 %)¡ Dermacentor marginatus (4 %). Distribution of ticks over different part of sheep body surface was respectively as follow¡ according to its frequencies: tail region¡ (41%)¡ inguinal region¡ (23 %)¡ head and neck¡ (20 %)¡ breast (14 %) and testes (2%). The prevalence and intensity of infection was low but high species diversity was seen.