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Table 1

List of tick species examined for infection by filarioids in French Guiana (cf. Table S1 for more details).

Host species Number of examined specimens Number of infected specimens (%)
Argasidae (soft ticks)
Ornithodoros capensis Neumann, 1901 6 0 (0)
Ixodidae (hard ticks)
Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) 229 15 (6.6%)
Amblyomma calcaratum Neumann, 1899 1 0 (0)
Amblyomma coelebs Neumann, 1899 31 0 (0)
Amblyomma dissimile Koch, 1884 21 0 (0)
Amblyomma geayi Neumann, 1899 10 0 (0)
Amblyomma goeldii Neumann, 1899 5 0 (0)
Amblyomma humerale Koch, 1844 10 0 (0)
Amblyomma latepunctatum Tonelli-Rondelli, 1939 4 0 (0)
Amblyomma longirostre (Koch, 1844) 137 0 (0)
Amblyomma naponense (Packard, 1869) 5 0 (0)
Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, 1844 66 2 (3%)
Amblyomma pacae Aragão, 1911 6 0 (0)
Amblyomma romitii Tonelli-Rondelli, 1939 2 1 (50%)
Amblyomma rotundatum Koch, 1844 6 0 (0)
Amblyomma scalpturatum Neumann, 1906 9 0 (0)
Amblyomma varium Koch, 1844 7 0 (0)
Rhipicephalus microplus (Canestrini, 1888) 10 0 (0)
Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. (Latreille, 1806) 6 1 (16.7%)
Dermacentor nitens Neumann, 1897 97 0 (0)
Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946 8 0 (0)
Ixodes luciae Senevet, 1940 6 2 (33.3%)
All tick species 682 21 (3.1%)

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