| description of adult and fourth-stage larva of litomosoides navonae n. sp. (nematoda: onchocercidae), a parasite of five species of sigmodontine rodents from northeastern argentina. | this study describes a new species of litomosoides chandler, 1931, parasitic in five different sigmodontine rodents from misiones, chaco and formosa provinces of argentina. the fourth-stage (l4) larva (male and female) is also described. l. navonae n. sp. exhibits: a bottle-shaped buccal cavity; a buccal capsule with irregularly crenate external walls; four externo-labial papillae and one ventral cephalic papilla; a well differentiated oesophagus; and sigmodontis-type spicules. the microfilaria ... | 2005 | 16315077 |