. 2023 Mar 16;10(3):227. doi: 10.3390/vetsci10030227

Table 1.

The distribution of tick species collected from 388 dogs in northern, middle, and southern regions of Taiwan.

	Total	R. sanguineus ^a	H. hystricis ^b	R. haemaphysaloides ^c	I. ovatus ^d	R. sanguineus ^a + H. hystricis ^b	R. sanguineus ^a + H. hystricis ^b + A. testudinarium ^e	H. hystrici ^b + A. testudinarium ^e	R. sanguineus ^a + R. haemaphysaloides ^c	R. sanguineus ^a + H. hystricis ^b + I. ovatus ^d
Northern	261	185	53	0	1	12	5	3	1	1
Northern		(70.9%)	(20.3%)	(0%)	(0.4%)	(4.6%)	(1.9%)	(1.1%)	(0.4%)	(0.4%)
Central	83	78	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Central		(94%)	(3.6%)	(1.2%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(1.2%)	(0%)
Southern	44	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Southern		(100%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)	(0%)

^a Rhipicephalus sanguineus; ^b Haemaphysalis hystricis; ^c Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides; ^d I. ovatus; ^e Amblyomma testudinarium.