Whartonia prima Schluger, Grochovskaja, Ngu, Hoe and Tung, 1959

Whartonia prima Schluger, Grochovskaja, Ngu, Hoe and Tung, 1959: 418, fig. 1; Domrow 1962c: 3; Lakshana 1973: 27; Wen 1984b: 325; Kudryashova 2004: 12; Chau et al. 2007: 190, fig. 95.

Whartonia (Asolentria) prima: Vercammen-Grandjean 1968b: 126 .

Whartonia mapaensis Chen and Hsu, 1959: 550, figs. 11–18.

Whartonia iwasakii Miyazaki, Kamo and Kawashima, 1959: 94, figs. 1–3.

Type deposition. W. prima: ZMMU (syntypes); W. mapaensis: ZSM; W. iwasakii: no data.

Type data. W. prima: ex Hipposideros armiger, North Vietnam, Cao Bang Province; W. mapaensis: ex Hipposideros larvatus poutensis (syn. Hipposideros poutensis), China, Kwangtung (Guangdong) Province, Mapa, Kukong; W. iwasakii: ex Hipposideros turpis, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Loochoo Is., Ishigakijima.

Hosts. CHIROPTERA: Hipposideros armiger, H. fulvus, H. larvatus poutensis, H. turpis, Rhinolophus sp.

Distribution. China, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam.

Remarks. Whartonia mapaensis and W. iwasakii were synonymized with W. prima by Domrow (1962c), but Vercammen-Grandjean (1968) listed all these species as separate.