Survey of tick fauna in eastern part of Shimane and western part of Tottori Prefectures, Japan (2013–2014)

Ixodid ticks were surveyed in western Tottori and eastern Shimane Prefectures in 2013–2014 using the flannel method. Seven species were collected in western Tottori Prefecture. Among them, Ixodes tanuki is newly record from Tottori Prefecture. The record of Haemaphysalis hystricis in this survey is the oldest collection record of H. hystricis in Tottori Prefecture. Nine species of ticks were collected in eastern Shimane Prefecture. When surveys were conducted in Yonago City, western Tottori Prefecture, and Yasugi City, eastern Shimane Prefecture, on almost the same survey dates and with the same effort in 2014, significantly higher numbers of individual of H. hystricis were collected in Yasugi City than in Yonago City.