| abstract | The Asian species of Whartonia are listed, and new host and distributional records given for the S.E. Asian species. W. brevis n.sp. is described from Laotion bats. The following new synonymy is established: Brennanella Radford, 1954b = Whartonia Ewing, 144, W. recurvata Chen and Hsu, 1959 = W. caobangensis Schluger, in Schluger et al., 1959, and W. iwasakii Miyazaki, Kamo and Kawashima, 1959 = W. mapaensis Chen and Hsu, 1959 = W. prima Schluger, in Schluger et al., 1959. |