Whartonia caobangensis 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

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scientific name	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.