New records of suctorians (Ciliophora: Suctoria) as epibionts of aquatic true bugs (Hemiptera: Prosorrhyncha: Nepomorpha) from two regions: Mexico and Eastern Europe
Author
Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo
Author
Dovgal, Igor
Author
Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura
text
Zootaxa
2011
2798
48
60
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.277026
7a56a707-d858-4f9a-9925-8b299760cae4
1175-5326
277026
Discophrya lichteinsteinii
(
Claparède et Lachmann, 1859
)
Fig. 1
e.
Suctorian ciliate with flattened, disc-shaped or elongate body. Macronucleus ovoid, centrally located. Contractile clavate tentacles evenly distributed over all edge of body, but in some cases only at apical part. Stalk cup-shaped or elongate, with different length (
Dovgal & Kochin, 1997
), uniformly expanding upwards, with transversal folds. There are up to three contractile vacuoles. Reproduction by inversogemmic budding.
Dimensions: body length 25–180; body width 15–160; macronucleus 5–7
x 12–16
, stalk length 17–192; stalk diameter 4–7; length of the tentacles 6–28. Previous measurements: body length 29–180; body width 36–130.
Material examined.
Found as epibiont of:
Ranatra linearis
.
Ukraine
. Small lake in high-water bed of Goryn’ river near village Velyky Tceptcevichi, Rovno region.
11.07.1985
. Small lake in high-water bed of river Goryn’ near village Zbuzh, Rovno region. 0 6.07.1985.
Plea leachi
.
Ukraine
.
River Unava near Fastov city, Kiev Region.
30.05.2004
.
Ambrysus
sp. 2.
Mexico
. River Cuichat. State of Puebla.
980 m
.
a.s.l.. (
20° 00’ 32” N
;
97° 30’ 46’’ W
).
19.03.2010
.
Additional records.
On
Cybister
,
Dysticus
,
Graphoderes
Thomson
,
Haliplus
Latreille
,
Peltodytes
Régimbart
,
Brychius
Thomson
,
Graptodytes pictus
Fabricius
,
Hyphydrus ovatus
Linnaeus
,
Coelambus impressopunctatus
(Schaller)
,
Hyphydrus
Illiger
, and
Potamonectes elegans
(Panzer) (
Matthes
et al.
1988
)
. Aquatic coleopterans (families Dysticidae,
Haliplidae
) (
Matthes
et al.
1988
). On
Astacus
Fabricius (
Morado & Small, 1995
)
.