Perates monops ( Brennan and Jones, 1960 )

Bassini-Silva, Ricardo, Takatsu, Julia Carvalho, Bermúdez, Sergio E., Miranda, Roberto J., Welbourn, Cal, Ochoa, Ron, Barros-Battesti, Darci Moraes & Jacinavicius, Fernando de Castro, 2021, A checklist of chiggers (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae) of Panama, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 763-789 : 779

Perates monops ( Brennan and Jones, 1960) : 524

Type locality: Trinidad and Tobago, Sangre Grande city, Guaico Tamana ( Brennan and Jones 1960). Type host: Mormoops megalophylla (Peters, 1864) ( Chiroptera : Mormoopidae ).

Type depository: USNM (holotype and paratypes), FMNH (paratypes), NHMUK (paratypes)

and SAM (paratypes). Panama records. Brennan and Yunker (1966) found this species on two bats, Myotis nigricans (Schinz, 1821) ( Chiroptera : Vespertilionidae ), from Cerro

Punta, Chiriquí Province and P. personatus (= P. psilotis ) ( Chiroptera : Mormoopidae ), from Penonomé, Coclé Province. These authors also reported P. monops from an unidentified bat collected in Penonomé, Coclé Province ( Brennan and Yunker, 1966). Other records. Colombia ( Marinkelle and Grose 1981), Cuba ( Daniel and Stekolnikov 2003a), Puerto Rico

( Kurta et al. 2007), Trinidad and Tobago ( Brennan and Jones 1960), Venezuela ( Brennan and Reed 1975).