Abstract
The cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Canestrini) is a hematophagous ectoparasite for which the main hosts are cattle living in regions located between the parallels 32ºN and 32ºS. The damages caused by the high infestation of the parasite are related to blood lost, leather damage and transmission of causative agents of babesiosis and anaplasmosis, with consequent reduction…