Prevalence and Relationships of Two Allocreadiid Metacercariae in the Burrowing Mayfly, Hexagenia limbata (Serville in Guerin), of Bluestem Lake, Lancaster County, Nebraska

Authors

Jane Marie Moul, University of Nebraska State Museum

Date of this Version

1984

Document Type

Article

Comments

1984. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XII: 13-18. Copyright © 1984 Moul

Abstract

All naiads of the burrowing mayfly, Hexagenia limbata, examined from Bluestem Lake, Lancaster County, Nebraska, were infected by trematode metaccrcariae. The naiads hosted two species of trematode, Megaiogollia ictaluri Surber, 1928, and Crepidostolllum cooperi Hopkins, 1931. Three thousand sixty-three cysts from 24 mayflies were inspected to confirm their identity and to determine their distribution on the naiads.