Stilestrongylus, Navone, 2017

Guillermo Panisse, María Del Rosario Robles, María Celina Digiani, Juliana Notarnicola, Carlos Galliari & Graciela Teresa Navone, 2017, Description of the helminth communities of sympatric rodents (Muroidea: Cricetidae) from the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Argentina, Zootaxa 4337 (2), pp. 243-262 : 253

Stilestrongylus n. sp. (2)

Site of infection. small intestine

Collection number. MLP-He7351, MLP-He7358

Host species. Euryoryzomys russatus . CG561. Sooretamys angouya . CG201.

Localities. RVSU and PPU

Comments. Main characteristics of the genus Stilestrongylus were mentioned above. Some of the specimens parasitizing E. russatus and S. angouya were identified as a new species because of the following unique combination of characters: pattern of lateral lobes of bursa, development of dorsal lobe, length of cephalic vesicle, shape and length of spicules and SpL/BL.

All reports of S. aculeata , S. lanfrediae , Stilestrongylus n. sp. (1) and Stilestrongylus n. sp. (2) represent the first record of Stilestrongylus in Misiones province, and, at the same time, add E. russatus , S. angouya and T. nigrita to the list of hosts of the genus Stilestrongylus .