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Table 1 The average testing areas-under-curve (AUC) of the BRT models at the county level and model-predicted numbers, areas and population sizes of affected counties for the 21 most prevalent mite species in China

From: Mapping the distributions of blood-sucking mites and mite-borne agents in China: a modeling study

Mite species

Average AUC (5 ‒95% percentiles)

Predicted/observed (relative difference%)

No. of counties

Area (10,000 km2)

Population size (million)

Ha. glasgowfabc

0.78 (0.74, 0.82)

897/259 (246.3)

456.8/189.8 (140.7)

415.6/115.2 (260.8)

La. echidninusabc

0.78 (0.73, 0.83)

1,493/200 (646.5)

295.8/58.0 (410.0)

744.1/91.3 (715.0)

Eu. stabularisabc

0.77 (0.73, 0.82)

861/188 (358.0)

208.4/76.4 (172.8)

451.7/93.9 (381.0)

La. jettmariabc

0.81 (0.77, 0.87)

1,046/185 (465.4)

242.1/67.3 (259.7)

516.7/91.7 (463.5)

Hy. pavlovskiib

0.80 (0.73, 0.85)

703/140 (402.1)

197.5/65.8 (200.2)

250.6/46.4 (440.1)

La. nuttalliac

0.81 (0.76, 0.85)

745/138 (439.9)

175.7/43.8 (301.1)

320.6/64.1 (400.2)

L. deliense

0.92 (0.88, 0.95)

534/126 (323.8)

106.6/32.9 (224.0)

287.2/68.4 (319.9)

Hi. sunci

0.78 (0.72, 0.85)

495/117 (323.1)

111.6/37.5 (197.6)

213.4/47.1 (353.1)

Or. bacoti

0.76 (0.69, 0.83)

598/109 (448.6)

99.4/26.9 (269.5)

333.1/62.4 (433.8)

Hy. lubrica

0.80 (0.72, 0.86)

393/100 (293.0)

132.5/57.1 (132.0)

135.9/31.5 (331.4)

Tr. myonysognathus

0.85 (0.81, 0.90)

263/97 (171.1)

55.9/20.4 (174.0)

138.6/52.9 (162.0)

L. scutellare

0.85 (0.78, 0.90)

402/86 (367.4)

64.5/18.8 (243.1)

243.4/43.8 (455.7)

Od. majesticus

0.93 (0.89, 0.96)

349/75 (365.3)

49.9/13.7 (264.2)

233.6/58.1 (302.1)

Eu. shanghaiensis

0.86 (0.77, 0.94)

389/59 (559.3)

75.7/14.2 (433.1)

172.8/23.4 (638.5)

L. intermedium

0.78 (0.67, 0.89)

420/50 (740.0)

94.4/14.1 (569.5)

176.5/23.2 (660.8)

L. yui

0.89 (0.81, 0.95)

169/49 (244.9)

30.1/11.9 (152.9)

74.9/23.2 (222.8)

Hi. isabellinus

0.82 (0.70, 0.90)

238/43 (453.5)

155.2/50.4 (207.9)

55.6/12.1 (359.5)

L. fuji

0.89 (0.82, 0.94)

140/40 (250.0)

34.9/11.8 (195.8)

55.3/16.2 (241.4)

L. palpale

0.84 (0.75, 0.93)

384/39 (884.6)

44.8/8.0 (460.0)

225.6/25.2 (795.2)

As. indica

0.92 (0.85, 0.97)

148/37 (300.0)

36.2/10.3 (251.5)

57.3/12.6 (354.8)

L. rubellum

0.95 (0.90, 0.99)

62/28 (121.4)

19.0/9.9 (91.9)

20.4/8.9 (129.2)

  1. The predicted numbers are compared with the actual observations from field surveys and the relative differences (%) are given in parentheses
  2. aTop 5 mite species affecting largest numbers of counties
  3. bTop 5 mite species affecting largest areas
  4. cTop 5 mite species affecting largest population sizes