Steinina diaperis Foerster, 1938
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https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2024.73.3 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A509626D-FFB6-FFA1-FF24-F9FCFACC322B |
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Felipe |
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Steinina diaperis Foerster, 1938 |
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Steinina diaperis Foerster, 1938 ( Fig. 1 View Figure 1 )
Hosts: Diaperis boleti (L., 1758).
Habitat: intestine.
Description: Epimerite short, mobile in young trophozoites, and later flattened. The protomerite is conical. The ratio of the protomerite length to the total length of the gamete is approximately 1:6. The deutomerite is ellipsoidal, the nucleus is spherical and contains one large karyosome. Morphological traits of gamonts are presented in Table 2.
Extensiveness and intensity of infestation: The average extensiveness of D. boleti infestation by this species of gregarine was 20.2%. The maximum total number of gregarine gamonts of this species in the body of one individual D. boleti was 11.
Literature records: The description of gregarines of this species and their life cycle is provided by Foerster (1938). This species is recorded in only one species of black-bodied damselfly, namely Diaperis boleti .
General distribution: Poland ( Foerster 1938; Ormières 1966), Germany ( Geus 1969).
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