New records of the genus Whartonia (Acari, Leeuwenhoekiidae) associated with the bat Carollia perspicillata from southeastern Brazil | Zendy

Paulo Sergio Amorim da Silveira | Zendy; Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi | Zendy; Almir R. Pepato | Zendy

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New records of the genus Whartonia (Acari, Leeuwenhoekiidae) associated with the bat Carollia perspicillata from southeastern Brazil

Author(s) -

Paulo Sergio Amorim da Silveira,

Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi,

Almir R. Pepato

Publication year - 2015

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276

H-Index - 22

ISSN - 1809-127X

DOI - 10.15560/11.6.1793

Subject(s) - acari , genus , biology , zoology , table (database) , ecology , computer science , data mining

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.

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