Table 3.
Tick species, location and number of instars collected from cats
| Number of instars | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | State | Larvae | Nymphs | Males | Females | Instar total | Number of hosts |
| Haemaphysalis bancrofti | NSW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ixodes cornuatus | TAS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ixodes hirsti | TAS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ixodes holocyclus | NSW | 0 | 22 | 9 | 88 | 119 | 77 |
| QLD | 0 | 2 | 0 | 64 | 66 | 59 | |
| Ixodes myrmecobii | WA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ixodes tasmani | TAS | 23 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 38 | 11 |
| VIC | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Rhipicephalus sanguineus | NSW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 23 | 33 | 9 | 164 | 229 | 153a | |
aThe total number of cats sampled in this study was n = 152. The total number of host records presented in Table 3 (n = 153) is inflated due repeated measures that occurred in cases where more than one tick species was identified on a host