Schwenkiella
Basir, 1956
Type species of the genus: Schwenkiella robustum (Leidy, 1850)
Basit, 1956
Synonyms:
Thelasatoma robustum (Leidy, 1850)
Schwenkiella sometimes considered a junior synonym of
Thelastoma
Distinction between Thelastoma
and Schwenkiella: Those species originally in Thelastoma with
excretory pore posterior to esophageal bulb were transafeed to Scwnckiella
(Basir, 1956; Kumar et al., 2010).
- yellowish color; cylindrical, tapering anteriorly
- cuticle annulated
- mouth surrounded by 8 labial paplillae
- esophagus with corpus, isthmus, end bulb
- excretory pore post-esophageal
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Females:
- tail long, filiform
- didelphic-amphidelphic
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Males:
- muchn smaller than female
- tail conoid
- single spicule
- 2 pairs ccaudal papillae; single median caudal papilla
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A genus of intestinal parasites of cockroaches, esp. Periplaneta
americana. Females, males, and
juveniles found in hind gut of cockroaches.
Basir, M.A. 1956. Oxyuroid paarasites of Arthropods, a minographic study.
1. Thelastomatidae, 2. Oxyuriodae. Zoologica 38:1-79.
Carreno, R.A. 2007. Description of a New Species
of Thelastoma Leidy, 1849 (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Thelastomatidae) from the
Millipede Euryurus leachii (Gray, 1832) in Ohio, U.S.A.Comparative
Parasitology 74:211-217.
Kumar, Y., Panwar, A., Anjum, A., Sharma, R.
2010. On two known nematode parasites of Periplaneta americana, L. J. Exp.
Zool. India. 13: 259-264.
Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: October 09, 2024.