| litomosoides yutajensis n. sp., first record of this filarial genus in a mormoopid bat. | twenty-five bats were trapped in yutaje (amazonas, venezuela) and examined for litomosoides (filarioidea: onchocercidae). of the nine recovered bat species, only pteronotus parnelli was infected; it is a cave-dwelling species belonging to a family, mormoopidae, which has not previously been included in the host range of the genus. the new species, l. yutajensis n. sp., has two median cephalic bosses covered with rugosities and differs from the 15 recognized species and subspecies from bats in se ... | 2003 | 14535161 |