Haematoloechus breviplexus Stafford, 1902

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Haematoloechus breviplexus Stafford, 1902

Site of infection: lungs.

Recruitment: ingestion.

Distribution: Canada: Ontario ( Stafford 1905; Cort 1915; CMNPA); Quebec ( Fantham & Porter 1948). USA: Arizona ( Snyder & Tkach 2001); Arkansas ( Rosen & Manis 1976; USNPC); Illinois (USNPC); Indiana ( Lank 1971; Whitehouse 2002); Kentucky ( Whitehouse 2002); Louisiana ( Bennett 1938; USNPC; HWML); Mississippi ( Clark & Longest 1969; Brooks 1979; HWML); Nebraska ( Brooks et al. 2006a; HWML); Nevada ( Babero & Golling 1974); North Carolina ( Brandt 1936); New Mexico ( Dronen 1977); Oklahoma ( Cort 1915; Trowbridge & Hefley 1934); South Carolina (USNPC); Texas ( Knight et al. 1965; Slagle 1966; Hollis 1972; Underwood & Dronen 1977; Mayberry et al. 2000; Yoder & Gomez 2007; HWML); Virginia ( Campbell 1968).

Specimens in collections: CMNPA: 1900-1621. HWML: 20293, 21957, 22681, 48350. USNPC: 50473, 82015, 84816, 95563.

Remarks: Some specimens identified by Cort (1915) as H. breviplexus were re-determined by León- Règagnon et al. (2005) as H. floedae . Material from Quebec was included into the genus Pneumobites , a synonym of Haematoloechus ( Yamaguti 1971) .