Heligmonina

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, Maria Celina, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the type specimens of Ethiopian Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda) deposited at the Natural History Museum of London, Zootaxa 2494, pp. 1-28 : 12-13

2) Heligmonina sp. 2

( Table 5, Figures 17–19 )

Material: one male (slide 122) coparasite with Neoheligmonella sp. 4 (see below). Host: Lemniscomys striatus n° 329 ( Table 5). Site: Small intestine.

Locality: Adu ( Nigeria).

Male: 3.8 mm long and 110 wide at mid-body, left ala (50) included ( Figure 17 ). Cephalic vesicle 48 long and 25 wide. Excretory pore situated 220 from anterior end. Oesophagus 280 long ( Figure 18 ). Spicules very thick, 210 long, ending in one sharp tip ( Figure 19 ). SpL/BL: 5.5%. Left ala disappearing just anterior to caudal bursa ( Figure 17 ).

Figure 15 , slide 123, Figure 16 , slide 124 from Lemniscomys striatus n° 397. Figures 17–19 , slide 122 from L. striatus n° 329.

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 19. Figures 15, 16. Heligmonina intermedia (Baylis, 1928). 15, lectotype male, caudal bursa, right laterodorsal view. 16, paralectotype female, posterior extremity, left lateral view. Figures 17 – 19. Heligmonina sp. 2. 17, male, silhouette of posterior part of body showing the left ala, ventral then dorsal views. 18, anterior extremity, right lateral view. 19, one spicule in situ, dorsal view.