Redescripción y comentarios taxonómicos sobre Ochoterenatrema labda (Digenea: Lecithodendriiae), parásito de quirópteros en México

Abstract

ADULT DIGENEANS FROM CHIROPTERANS FROM COLECCION NACIONAL DE HELMINTOS, DEPOSITED AT INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA, UNAM, MEXICO, WERE STUDIED. PROSTHODENDRIUM PAEMINOSUM CABALLERO 1943 FROM BALANOPTERYX PLICATA PETERS (= B. OCHOTERENAI) (EMBALLONURIDAE) CAPTURED AT IZUCAR DE MATARAMOS, PUEBLA IS CONSIDERED AS BELONGING TO THE GENUS OCHOTERENATREMA CABALLERO 1943 AND CONSIDERED A JUNIOR SYNONYM OF O. LABDA CABALLERO 1943. FURTHERMORE, MEASUREMENTS OF SPECIMENS OF O. LABDA COLLECTED FROM THE SMALL INTESTINE OF NATALUS STRAMINEUS GRAY (= N. MEXICANUS) (NATALIDAE) FROM CUEVA DEL XICTLI, TLALPAN, MEXICO, D. F. ARE ALSO GIVEN, RESULTING SIGNIFICATIVELY SMALLER THAN THOSE REPORTED BY CABALLERO (1943). BALANOPTERYX PLICATA BECOMES A NEW HOST-RECORD FOR THIS SPECIES.