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

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 4913 (1), pp. 1-163 : 51-52

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scientific name	Whartonia prima Schluger, Grochovskaja, Ngu, Hoe and Tung, 1959
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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.