Table 3 Pairwise genetic distances (in %) between mitochondrial 16S rDNA of reference sequences and Corsican specimens of the genus Rhipicephalus (C1, C2, and C3 sequences were compared with the whole database of Hekimoğlu et al. [10])

Corsican Rhipicephalus sanguineus (s.l.)

C1 (n = 8)

14.5 ± 2.1

C2 (n = 1)

11.3 ± 1.9

6.6 ± 1.5

Corsican Rhipicephalus bursa

C3 (n = 3)

0.4 ± 0.2

13.8 ± 2.0

10.6 ± 1.8

Rhipicephalus sanguineus (s.l.)

OTU8

14.4 ± 2.1

6.1 ± 1.5

6.0 ± 1.3

OTU5

16.6 ± 2.3

7.4 ± 1.4

6.7 ± 1.3

OTU9

16.4 ± 2.5

1.4 ± 0.3

8.6 ± 1.8

OTU1

14.4 ± 2.6

10.7 ± 2.1

9.3 ± 2.0

OTU6

17.3 ± 3.2

9.0 ± 2.1

8.5 ± 2.0

OTU7

15.9 ± 2.6

8.5 ± 1.8

7.6 ± 1.7

OTU4

12.2 ± 2.0

7.7 ± 1.6

0.4 ± 0.2