| a new species of dipetalonema (filarioidea: onchocercidae) from ateles chamek from the beni of bolivia. | we describe a new species of dipetalonema occurring in the body cavity of ateles chamek (humboldt, 1812) from north-central bolivia. morphologic characters serving to separate dipetalonema yatesi n. sp. from known forms include a vagina vera with a simple tube and thin walls and a left spicule, which possesses a handle shorter than the lamina (ratio 2.7); the latter displays an anterior membranous alae similar in length to the terminal flagellum, a distal extremity of the left spicule within a s ... | 2007 | 17626361 |