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Table 2 Tick species, location and number of instars collected from dogs

From: A survey of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of companion animals in Australia

 

Number of instars

Species

State

Larvae

Nymphs

Males

Females

Instar total

Number of hosts

Amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum

WA

0

5

0

5

10

8

Bothriocroton sp.

TAS

0

1

0

0

1

1

VIC

11

0

1

1

13

5

Haemaphysalis bancrofti

NSW

0

2

0

2

4

3

QLD

0

0

0

1

1

1

Haemaphysalis longicornis

NSW

0

127

0

61

188

35

QLD

2

23

0

0

25

4

Ixodes cornuatus

TAS

0

7

0

6

13

11

VIC

0

2

0

0

2

2

Ixodes holocyclus

NSW

0

39

78

373

490

193

QLD

0

47

4

226

277

205

TAS

0

0

0

2

2

2

WA

0

0

0

1

1

1

Ixodes myrmecobii

WA

0

0

0

4

4

4

Ixodes tasmani

NSW

0

0

0

1

1

1

QLD

0

0

0

4

4

2

TAS

16

4

6

57

83

49

VIC

0

0

0

2

2

2

Rhipicephalus australis

QLD

0

1

0

0

1

1

Rhipicephalus sanguineus

NSW

0

0

0

6

6

3

NT

31

240

927

858

2056

76

QLD

0

12

22

32

66

15

SA

5

55

231

119

410

15

WA

132

168

115

116

531

46

Total

 

197

733

1384

1877

4191

685a

  1. aThe total number of dogs sampled in this study was n = 643. The total number of host records presented in Table 2 (n = 685) is inflated due repeated measures that occurred in cases where more than one tick species was identified on a host