Table 1 Characteristics of Hyalomma species included in the study, 2019–2023

2019

Baden-Wuerttemberg

7 (1 m, 6 f)

2 (1 m, 1 f)

Department of Parasitology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart

Bavaria

9 (5 m, 4 f)

1 (f)

Brandenburg

8 (3 m, 5 f)

1 (1 m)

Hamburg

1 (m)

–

Hesse

1 (m)

2 (1 m, 1f)

Lower Saxony

6 (4 m, 2 f)

3 (2 m, 1f)

North Rhine-Westphalia

11 (7 m, 4 f)

2 (m)

Rhine-Palatine

9 (5 m, 4 f)

2 (m)

Saarland

2 (m)

–

Saxony

1 (f)

–

Saxony- Anhalt

2 (f)

–

Schleswig–Holstein

4 (2 m, 2 f)

1 (m)

Thuringia

–

1 (m)

North Rhine-Westphalia

–

1 (f)

Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine of the Freie Universität Berlin

Baden-Wuerttemberg

1 (m)

–

University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Brandenburg

1 (f)

–

Lower Saxony

6 (4 m, 2 f)

2 (1 m, 1 f)

North Rhine-Westphalia

2 (1 m, 1 f)

–

Rhine-Palatine

3 (1 m, 2 f)

1 (m)

Saarland

1 (f)

Thuringia

2 (m)

Brandenburg

3 (m)

–

Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology

Bavaria

1 (m)

Hesse

1 (f)

North Rhine-Westphalia

4 (m)

2020

Baden-Wuerttemberg

9 (5 m, 4 f)

4 (m)

Department of Parasitology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart

Bavaria

1 (f)

1 (f)

Brandenburg

1 (m)

–

Hesse

6 (4 m, 2 f)

–

Lower Saxony

8 (6 m, 2 f)

North Rhine-Westphalia

6 (4 m, 2 f)

Rhine-Palatine

3 (2 m, 1 f)

1 (f)

Saxony

1 (m)

1 (m)

Schleswig–Holstein

1 (m)

Thuringia

1 (m)

Hesse

1 (m)

1 (m)

University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Lower Saxony

7 (1 m, 6 f)

2 (1 m, 1 f)

North Rhine-Westphalia

–

1 (f)

2021

Baden-Wuerttemberg

2 (m)

–

Department of Parasitology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart

Bavaria

6 (5 m, 1 f)

–

North Rhine-Westphalia

1(m)

–

Rhine-Palatine

1 (f)

–

2022

North Rhine-Westphalia

1 (m)

Lower Saxony

–

2 (m)

Department of Parasitology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart

Rhine-Palatine

–

2 (1 m, 1 f)

University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

2023

Lower Saxony

–

1 (female)

University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover