Plasmodium hexamerium Huff, 1935

Chavatte, Jean-Marc, Grès, Virginie, Snounou, Georges, Chabaud, Alain & Landau, Irène, 2009, Plasmodium (Apicomplexa) of the skylark (Alauda arvensis), Zoosystema 31 (2), pp. 369-383 : 380

Plasmodium hexamerium Huff, 1935 ( Fig. 3C )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Landes, Saint-Julien-en- Born, 44°03’42’’N, 1°13’33’’W, blood smears of A. arvensis number 741U, 25.X.1996 ( MNHN P2-XXV, 44-64).

DISTRIBUTION. — Illinois, USA ( Huff 1935); Seine- Saint-Denis, France ( Chavatte et al. 2007); new record for the Landes, France.

HOSTS. — Sialis sialis sialis, Huff (1935) (type host) ; new record for Alauda arvensis .

REMARKS

As for the magpie, the small apical or sub-apical schizonts with 6 nuclei are indistinguishable from those of P. hexamerium .

Figures

FIG. 3.— A, Plasmodium jeanriouxi Chavatte & Landau,n.sp.; A1, trophozoite;A2-A7, schizonts;A8, A10, microgamtocytes;A9, A11, macrogametocytes;B1-B5, Plasmodium sp.,schizonts;C, Plasmodium hexamerium Huff,1935,schizont;D-J, photomicrograph of holotypes of the newly described species of Plasmodium from Alauda arvensis Linnaeus,1758;D, P. caloti n.sp.; E, P.relictum quentini n. subsp.; F, Plasmodium sp.; G, P. reniai n. sp.; H, P. ginsburgi n. sp.; I, P. coluzzii n. sp.; J, P. jeanriouxi n. sp. Scale bars: 10 μm.