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

• Main Author: Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
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• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Trombidiformes; Trombiculidae; Whartonia; Whartonia caobangensis; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4458794; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E016879A6632296633F3ABBFFC861A8A

Whartonia caobangensis Schluger, Grochovskaja, Ngu, Hoe and Tung, 1959 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. Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., 2021, A checklist of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Southeast Asia, pp. 1-163 in Zootaxa 4913 (1) on page 51, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4448915