Heligmonina

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, Maria Celina, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the type specimens of Ethiopian Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda) deposited at the Natural History Museum of London, Zootaxa 2494, pp. 1-28 : 11

2) Heligmonina sp. 1

( Table 4, Figure 14 )

Material: two females (slide 134). Host: Cricetomys emini n° 363 ( Table 4). Site: Small intestine.

Locality: Adu ( Nigeria).

Female (only one mesurable, except measurements of prevulvar ala): 7.0 mm long and 210 wide at midbody, left ala included. Cephalic vesicle 55 long and 30 wide. Nerve ring 125 long. Excretory pore and deirids not observed. Oesophagus 340 long. Uterus 1.3 mm containing 51 eggs. UtL/BL 18.6%. Presence of a ventral left prevulvar ala, 75, 80 long and 70, 70 wide ( Figure 14 ).

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 14. Figures 10 – 13. Heligmonina cricetomyos Baylis, 1928. 10, 11, lectotype male. 10, anterior extremity, left lateral view. 11, caudal bursa, dorsal view. 12, female, posterior extremity, ventral view. 13, male, spicules and gubernaculum in situ, ventral view. Figure 14. Heligmonina sp. 1, female, posterior extremity (orientation unclear). Figures 10, 11, slide 131 from Cricetomys emini n ° 14. Figure 12, slide 136 from C. emini n ° 197. Figure 13, slide 140 from C. emini n ° 359. Figure 14, slide 134 from C. emini n ° 363. Arrows indicate the position of right ray 3 and left ray 2, not visible on the preparation.