Heligmonina intermedia ( Baylis, 1928 ) Durette-Desset, 1971

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 : 12

Heligmonina intermedia ( Baylis, 1928) Durette-Desset, 1971

( Table 5)

The type-material was made up of two males (an entire one and a posterior fragment) and two females parasitic in the small intestine of one Lemniscomys striatus n° 397 from Ibadan. The species described as Heligmonella intermedia was transferred into the genus Heligmonina by Durette-Desset (1971) since Baylis (1928) provided a drawing of the posterior part of the male and described «an extremely broad left lateral ala» which corresponds to the redefinition of the genus Heligmonina . In the entire syntype male, the spicules were very thin and the SpL/BL was 12.2%. Baylis also identified as H. intermedia one male parasitic in another L. striatus n° 329 from Adu. In this male (slide 122) the left ala was present but the spicules were thick and the SpL/BL was 5.5%. Therefore this male may belong to another species of Heligmonina . Two other males (slides 83, 84) parasitic in the same L. striatus were identified by Baylis as Heligmonella impudica Baylis, 1928 (see below and Table 5).