Microtrombicula carmenae Brennan and Jones, 1960: 513

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Microtrombicula carmenae Brennan and Jones, 1960: 513

Type locality: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain city, Emperor Valley Zoo ( Brennan and Jones 1960). Type host: Phyllostomus discolor Wagner, 1843 ( Chiroptera : Phyllostomidae ); Type depository: USNM (holotype and paratypes) and NHMUK (paratypes). Panama records.

This species was reported from three bats, A. jamaicensis ( Chiroptera : Phyllostomidae ) from Bocas del Toro Province, P. hastatus ( Chiroptera : Phyllostomidae ) from Pacora, Panama Province and Sturnira ludovici Anthony, 1924 ( Chiroptera : Phyllostomidae ), from Bambito, Chiriquí Province ( Brennan and Yunker 1966). In addition, M. carmenae was reported on a phyllostomid bat, P. hastatus ( Chiroptera : Phyllostomidae ) from Pacora, Panama Province by Webb and Loomis (1971). Other records. Colombia ( Marinkelle and Grose 1981), Costa

Rica (Webb and Loomis 1971), Nicaragua (Webb and Loomis 1971), Surinam ( Brennan and Bronswijk 1975), Mexico (Webb and Loomis 1971; Colín-Martínez et al. 2018), Puerto

Rico ( Kurta et al. 2007), Trinidad and Tobago ( Brennan and Jones 1960 ; Webb and Loomis), Venezuela ( Brennan and Reed 1975).