Whartonia Ewing, 1944

Diagnosis

SIF = 7B-B(N)-(2-8)-2111.0(1)1(0)00; fsp = 6.6.6; fSt = 0.2; fCx = 2.1.1; Ip = 1000–2550. Cheliceral blade long, with large, recurved ventral row of teeth and dorsal teeth or hooks; galeal setae branched or nude; palpal claw divided by 2–8 prongs; palpal tarsus with 7 branched setae. Scutum wide, sometimes striplike, without nasus, with 2 AM, 2 AL and 2 PL setae; sensilla flagelliform. Eyes 2 + 2; tracheae and stigmae absent or present. Legs 6-segmented, onychotriches absent, subterminala and parasubterminala I present, 2 genualae I, genuala II, genuala and tibiala III present, mastitarsala or solenidion III sometimes present, mastitibiala rarely present. Parasites of bats.