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Table 4 Tick species, location and number of instars collected from horses

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

NSW

0

0

0

1

1

1

QLD

0

0

0

4

4

1

WA

0

1

0

9

10

8

Haemaphysalis bancrofti

NSW

0

1

2

10

13

3

QLD

0

2

1

6

9

5

Haemaphysalis longicornis

NSW

0

27

0

176

203

14

QLD

0

2

0

2

4

2

Ixodes holocyclus

NSW

0

5

2

33

40

11

QLD

0

0

6

51

57

10

Ixodes tasmani

QLD

0

0

0

1

1

1

Rhipicephalus australis

QLD

0

1

0

2

3

1

Total

 

0

39

11

295

345

57a

  1. a The total number of horses sampled in this study was n = 42. The total number of host records presented in Table 4 (n = 57) is inflated due repeated measures that occurred in cases where more than one tick species was identified on a host