Taxonomic revision of the type specimens of Ethiopian Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda) deposited at the Natural History Museum of London
Author
Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude
Author
Digiani, Maria Celina
text
Zootaxa
2010
2494
1
28
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195700
30a5b7a7-0c66-4329-805e-b3aea3a8f62e
1175-5326
195700
Heligmonina intermedia
(
Baylis, 1928
)
Durette-Desset, 1971
(
Table 5
)
The type-material was made up of two males (an entire one and a posterior fragment) and two females parasitic in the small intestine of one
Lemniscomys striatus
n° 397 from Ibadan. The species described as
Heligmonella intermedia
was transferred into the genus
Heligmonina
by
Durette-Desset (1971)
since
Baylis (1928)
provided a drawing of the posterior part of the male and described «an extremely broad left lateral ala» which corresponds to the redefinition of the genus
Heligmonina
. In the entire
syntype
male, the spicules were very thin and the SpL/BL was 12.2%. Baylis also identified as
H. intermedia
one male parasitic in another
L. striatus
n° 329 from Adu. In this male (slide 122) the left ala was present but the spicules were thick and the SpL/BL was 5.5%. Therefore this male may belong to another species of
Heligmonina
.
Two other males (slides 83, 84) parasitic in the same
L. striatus
were identified by Baylis as
Heligmonella impudica
Baylis, 1928
(see below and
Table 5
).