Journal Title
Title of Journal: Syst Parasitol
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Abbravation: Systematic Parasitology
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: George Poinar Stephen P Yanoviak
Publish Date: 2007/11/24
Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 145-153
Abstract
A new genus and species of tetradonematid nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum n g n sp is described from larval pupal and adult stages of Cephalotes atratus L Hymenoptera Formicidae in Peru and Panama Diagnostic characters of the new genus include males and females subequal in size cuticle with minute annulations six cephalic papillae stylet present in all stages stichocytes absent trophosome degenerate three penetration glands gonads paired and opposite vulva in midbody region single spicule genital papillae absent adult tails rounded infective juveniles moult once in egg and adults of both sexes remain in the host throughout their development As the female nematodes mature inside the worker ants the host gasters change colour from black to redWe thank Cesare Baroni Urbani for supplying information concerning the red gasters of C atratus and Roberta Poinar for comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript We are grateful to the Panamanian Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente ANAM and the Peruvian Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales INRENA for providing collecting permits the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies Explorama Lodges and numerous private individuals for allowing access to field sites in Peru and to Frank Azorsa Robert Dudley Michael Kaspari and Shauna Price for assistance in the field This research was funded in part by the National Geographic Society the Amazon Conservation Association and the BBC Natural History Unit
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- Dramatic phenotypic plasticity within species of Siphomutabilus n. g. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from Indo-Pacific caesionines (Perciformes: Lutjanidae)
- Redescriptions of species of Tetrarhynchobothrium Diesing, 1850 and Didymorhynchus Beveridge & Campbell, 1988 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the description of Zygorhynchus borneensis n. sp.
- On the parasitoid complex of butterflies with descriptions of two new species of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Goa, India
- Etude morphologique de Syphatineria pearsi (Baylis, 1928) (Oxyuridae, Nematoda)
- Four New Species of the Feather Mite Genus Vanginyssus Mironov, 2001 (Astigmata: Pteronyssidae) from the Vangas (Passeriformes: Vangidae) in Madagascar
- Porrocaecum parvum n. sp. and P. reticulatum (Linstow, 1899) (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) from birds in China
- Parasitic copepods from two species of commercial fishes collected off Iraq, with description of Hatschekia shari n. sp.
- Two new species of Echinobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Diphyllidea) from the Persian Gulf
- Descriptions of Philometra aenei n. sp. and P . tunisiensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Philometridae) from Epinephelus spp. off Tunisia confirm a high degree of host specificity of gonad-infecting species of Philometra Costa, 1845 in groupers (Serranidae)
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