A New Species of Dipetalonema (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) from Ateles chamek from the Beni of Bolivia

Authors

Juliana Notarnicola, Centro de Estudios Parasitolo´gicos y de VectoresFollow
F. Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleFollow
Scott Lyell Gardner, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

7-1-2007

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology, vol. 93, no. 3 (2007): 661-667. Copyright 2007, American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

We describe a new species of Dipetalonema occurring in the body cavity of Ateles chamek (Humboldt, 1812) from north-central Bolivia. Morphologic characters serving to separate Dipetalonema yatesi n. sp. from known forms include a vagina vera with a simple tube and thin walls and a left spicule, which possesses a handle shorter than the lamina (ratio 2.7); the latter displays an anterior membranous alae similar in length to the terminal flagellum, a distal extremity of the left spicule within a simple hook and a membrane, phasmids at the basis of the lappets, and heterogeneous muscles occupying the whole cavity. Dipetalonema yatesi n. sp. can be separated from Dipetalonema robini, Dipetalonema gracile, and Dipetalonema graciliformis, between other characters, in having a simple vagina vera instead of a sinuous one, and from Dipetalonema caudispina and Dipetalonema freitasi in having the lamina of the left spicule divided in a membranous alae and a terminal flagellum.