Physalopterinae gen. sp.

Oca, Edgar Uriel Garduno-Montes de, Lopez-Caballero, Jorge D. & Mata-Lopez, Rosario, 2017, New records of helminths of Sceloporuspyrocephalus Cope (Squamata, Phrynosomatidae) from Guerrero and Michoacan, Mexico, with the description of a new species of Thubunaea Seurat, 1914 (Nematoda, Physalopteridae), ZooKeys 716, pp. 43-62 : 43

Physalopterinae gen. sp.

Specimens deposited.

CNHE 9466-9468.

Other hosts.

Abbreviata terrapenis Hill, 1941 in S. jarrovi from Tamaulipas ( Goldberg et al. 1996). Physaloptera retusa Rudolphi, 1819 in S. jarrovi from Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Morelos, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tamaulipas ( Goldberg et al. 1996); in S. acanthinus Bocourt from Motozintla, Chiapas ( Caballero 1951); in S. jarrovi ( Goldberg et al. 1996) and S. parvus ( Goldberg et al. 2003) from Hidalgo; in S. formosus from Oaxaca ( Goldberg et al. 2003); in S. mucronatus from Puebla ( Goldberg et al. 2003); in S. torquatus from Zacatecas ( Goldberg et al. 2003). Skrjabinoptera phrynosoma (Ortlepp, 1922) Schulz, 1927 in S. jarrovi from Guanajuato ( Goldberg et al. 1996); in S. spinosus Wiegmann from Actopan, Hidalgo ( Caballero 1937); in S. jarrovi from Querétaro ( Goldberg et al. 1996), and finally, in S. grammicus and S. variabilis from localities not further specified ( Goldberg et al. 2003).

Remarks.

Representatives of the subfamily Physalopterinae use ants and beetles as intermediate hosts, which are part of the diet of S. pyrocephalus . By eating that sort of prey, this group of lizards becomes a potential intermediate or paratenic host of these nematodes ( Petri 1950, Schell 1952, Lee 1957, Kabilov 1980).