Whartonia carpenteri
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| Whartonia carpenteri Brennan, 1962[2]
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Whartonia carpenteri is a species of trombiculid mite collected from the eastern red bat, Lasiurus borealis, and the gray sac-winged bat, Balantiopteryx plicata.[2]
Range
[edit]Whartonia carpenteri has been recorded from the State of Morelos in central Mexico.[2][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species is classified in the subgenus Asolentria.[3] The specific epithet honors "Lt. Cmdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USA, who completed three orbits of the earth in the Aurora VII, 24 May 1962."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ewing, Henry E. (1944). "Notes on the taxonomy of the trombiculid mites". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 57: 101–104.
- ^ a b c d Brennan, James M. (1962). "Four New Chiggers from Mexico". The Journal of Parasitology. 48 (4): 618–620. doi:10.2307/3274924. JSTOR 3274924.
- ^ a b Hoffmann, Anita (1990). Los trombicúlidos de México (Acarida: Trombiculidae).: Parte taxonómica. p. 193. ISBN 9789683615688.
