| litomosa chiropterorum ortlepp, 1932 (nematoda: filarioidea) from a south african miniopterid: redescription, wolbachia screening and phylogenetic relationships with litomosoides. | 69 miniopterus notalensis, type host of the onchocercid litomosa chiropterorum, were collected in caves in the western province and gauteng province, south africa. the prevalence of these filariae was about 50 %. the microfilaria is folded, as in other litomosa and an area rugosa composed of cuticular bosses is present in the male posterior region. l. chiropterorum is close to the species parasitic in other miniopterus spp. and some rhinolophus spp. from africa, madagascar and europe; it is uniq ... | 2009 | 19353951 |
| helminth parasites of natal long-fingered bats, miniopterus natalensis (chiroptera: miniopteridae), south africa. | the helminth community infecting miniopterus natalensis was studied at two localities, the de hoop nature reserve (dhnr) (n = 57), western cape province and pretoria (n = 12), gauteng province, south africa. hosts from the dhnr had formed part of an earlier, unrelated study and were all pregnant females. a single hymenolepidid cestode species, the nematodes molinostrongylus ornatus and litomosa chiropterorum together with nematodes of the subfamily capillariinae were present at both study sites, ... | 2008 | 19040141 |