Schwenkiella

  

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Classification:

Chromadorea
                     Chromadoria

Thelastomatidae

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

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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).

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Females:

  • tail long, filiform
  • didelphic-amphidelphic

Males:

  • much smaller than female
  • tail conoid
  • single spicule
  • 2 pairs ccaudal papillae; single median caudal papilla

 
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Distribution:

 

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Schwenkiella

A genus of intestinal parasites of cockroaches, esp. Periplaneta americana. Females, males, and juveniles found in hind gut of cockroaches.

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Biology and Ecology:

 

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

 

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References:

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.

 

 

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Revised: May 27, 2025.