Syphacia carlitosi Robles & Navone 2007

Site of infection. caecum

Collection number. MLP-He7331

Host species. Akodon montensis . CG169

Localities. CAMB, RVSU and PPU

Comments. The morphological characters observed in the specimens agree with the original description given by Robles & Navone (2007), i.e. absence of deirids in both sexes, well-developed cervical alae in females, not equidistant mamelons, accessory hook of gubernaculum with ornamentation on lateral edges, relatively long tail in males, among other morphometric features.

This species was formerly described parasitizing Akodon azarae (Fischer 1829) from El Colorado, Pirané, Formosa; Colonia Villa Elisa, Colón, Entre Ríos; and Punta Piedras, Punta Indio, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Robles & Navone 2007a), and later recorded for A. montensis, Akodon phylipmyersi Pardiñas, D ´Elía, Cirignoli & Suárez 2005 and Castoria serrensis (Thomas, 1902) from different localities in Misiones province, such as Balneario Municipal de Aristóbulo del Valle in Stream Cuña Pirú, Puerto Península, Caraguatay (Robles 2010), and A. cursor from Serra dos Órgãos, Río de Janeiro, Brasil (Simões et al. 2011).