Family Thelastomatidae

                                 Revised 06/01/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Order Rhabditida

• A family of pinworm nematodes that are parasites of a great diversity of insects and other invertebrates.
• Thelastomatidae, are include parasites of saprophytic terrestrial arthropods, mainly cockroaches. American cockroach Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758) has high environmental adaptability, and has been spread worldwide by human activity. There are several reports of thelastomatid parasitic nematodes of P. americana (Jex et al., 2006).

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References

Adamson, M.L., D. van Waerebeke 1982. Revision of the Thelastomatoidea, Oxyurida of invertebrate hosts I. Thelastomatidae. Systematic Parasitology 21:21-63.

Jex, A., Schneider, M. and Cribb, T.H.. 2006. The importance of host ecology in thelastomatoid (Nematoda: Oxyurida) host specificity. Parasitology International 55: 169-174. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2006.03.001

Weaver, H.J. 2024. Oxyurida (Order): Pinworms. Chapter 52 in  S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner, eds. Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.ciap052

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