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

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Whartonia caobangensis Schluger, Grochovskaja, Ngu, Hoe and Tung, 1959: 422 , fig. 3; Domrow 1962c: 1; Wen 1984b: 325; Kudryashova 2004: 12; Chau et al. 2007: 188, fig. 94; Ahamad et al. 2013: 140.

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

Whartonia recurvata Chen and Hsu, 1959: 549 , figs. 1–10.

Type deposition. W. caobangensis: ZMMU Tdt 3175 (syntypes); W. recurvata: ZSM.

Type data. W. caobangensis: Ex Hipposideros armiger , North Vietnam; W. recurvata : ex Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Hipposideros larvatus poutensis (syn. Hipposideros poutensis ), China, Kwangtung (Guangdong) Province, Mapa, Kukong.

Hosts. CHIROPTERA : Hipposideros armiger , H. bicolor , H. cervinus , H. diadema , H. larvatus , H. larvatus poutensis , Kerivoula hardwickii , Pipistrellus pipistrellus , Rhinolophus affinis .

Distribution. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam.

Remarks. Whartonia recurvata was synonymized with W. caobangensis by Domrow (1962c), but Vercammen-Grandjean (1968) listed the former as a separate species.

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Chau, N. V., Hien, D. S. & Van, N. T. (2007) Fauna of Vietnam. 16. Trombiculidae-Acarina, Siphonaptera. Science and Technics Publishing House, Ha Noi, 209 pp.

Chen, H. T. & Hsu, P. K. (1959) Two new species of Trombiculid mites belonging to the genus Whartonia (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Acta Zoologica Sinica, 11, 549 - 560. [in both Chinese and English]

Domrow, R. (1962 c) The Asian species of Whartonia (Acarina, Trombiculidae). Treubia, 26, 1 - 10.

Kudryashova, N. I. (2004) Types of chigger mites (Trombiculidae) in the Zoological Museum of Moscow University. Zoologicheskie Issledovania, 7, 1 - 52.

Schluger, E. G., Grochovskaja, I. M., Ngu, D. V., Hoe, N. X. & Tung, D. K. (1959) New species of chiggers (Acariformes) from bats of North Viet-Nam. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 38, 418 - 425. [in Russian]

Vercammen-Grandjean, P. H. (1968 b) The chigger mites of the Far East (Acarina: Trombiculidae & Leeuwenhoekiidae). U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Washington, D. C., 135 pp.