Flannerystrongylus, , Smales, 2019

Smales, Lesley, 2020, Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys levipes and P. mollis (Rodentia Muridae) from Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of three new genera and nine new species (Nematoda), Zootaxa 4861 (4), pp. 544-572 : 553

Flannerystrongylus spp.

Three males and 3 females, also Flannerystrongylus sp. were found in the same individual of P. mollis , as the one from which F. chisholmae was recovered, collected from Bichate, Arfak Mountains, Papua, Indonesia AM W. 53146 by T. Flannery and A. Szalay, 10. x. 1992.

These specimens could be placed in the genus Flannerystrongylus on the basis of the synlophe, 15 small ridges at mid body, with no obvious size gradient and a sub frontal axis of orientation. The males differed from the known species of Flannerystrongylus as follows: two of the males with body length 4.5 mm had spicules 750, 800 long, a spicule to body length ratio of 17.2% and the third male a body length of 0. 9 mm with spicules 460 long, a spicule to body length ratio of 50 % as compared with a body length of 6.7 mm, spicules 485 long and a spicule to body length ratio of 7.2% for F. abulus (see Smales 2019) and body length 4.0 mm, spicules 531 and a spicule to body length ratio of 13.2% for F. chisholmae . The females collected from this host were larger than those of F. chisholmae and smaller than females of F. abulus (5300 compared with 4100 and 8400 long respectively) with some specimens having a praepuce but none with the torsion noted by Smales (2019) for F. abulus . Additional material is required to confirm that these specimens represent new species and to prepare complete descriptions.