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.

References

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.

Lakshana, P. (1973) A checklist of the trombiculid mites of Thailand (Prostigmata: Trombiculidae). US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, 45 pp.

Miyazaki, I., Kamo, H. & Kawashima, K. (1959) Discovery of the genus Whartonia Ewing, bat-chiggers, in the Loochoo Islands (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Kyushu Journal of Medical Science, 10, 93 - 99. [In Japanese] https: // doi. org / 10.7601 / mez. 10.107 _ 3

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.