Biology:Whartonia carpenteri
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Short description: Species of mite
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| Family: | Ewing, 1944[1]
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| Genus: | Whartonia Ewing, 1944[1]
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| Species: | W. 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
Whartonia carpenteri has been recorded from the State of Morelos in central Mexico.[2][3]
Taxonomy
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ewing, Henry E. (1944). "Notes on the taxonomy of the trombiculid mites". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 57: 101–104. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34564817#page/339/mode/1up.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Brennan, James M. (1962). "Four New Chiggers from Mexico". The Journal of Parasitology 48 (4): 618–620. doi:10.2307/3274924.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hoffmann, Anita (1990). Los trombicúlidos de México (Acarida: Trombiculidae).: Parte taxonómica. p. 193. ISBN 9789683615688. https://books.google.com/books?id=pSKfM06UuuwC&pg=PA193.
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Wikidata ☰ Q25094577 entry
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