Check List 11(6): e19395, doi: 10.15560/11.6.1793
New records of the genus Whartonia (Acari, Leeuwenhoekiidae) associated with the bat Carollia perspicillata from southeastern Brazil
expand article infoPaulo Sergio Amorim da Silveira‡, Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi§, Almir Rogério Pepato‡
‡ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil§ iversidade Federal de Lavras,

Corresponding author: Paulo da Silveira ( paulosilveira314@gmail.com )

© 2017 Paulo da Silveira, Leopoldo Bernardi, Almir Pepato.
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Citation: Bernardi L, da Silveira P, Pepato A (2015) New records of the genus Whartonia (Acari, Leeuwenhoekiidae) associated with the bat Carollia perspicillata from southeastern Brazil. Check List 11(6): 1793. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1793
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Abstract
Two species of mites belonging to the genus Whartonia Ewing, 1944, family Leeuwenhoekiidae (Womersley, 1944), were obtained from Carollia per­spicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) bats from mine tunnels in the municipalities of São José da Safira and Medina, Brazil: W. (W). pachywhartoni Vercammen-Grandjean, 1966 and W. (W.) nudosetosa Wharton, 1938. A table with all Whartonia (Whartonia) species and their respective morphological characters is presented.
Keywords
Neotropical region, Parasitengona, Chiroptera, chigger, Trombiculoidea