Record of a gregarine (Apicomplexa: Neogregarinida) in the abdomen of the termite Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae) |
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Authors: | Costa-Leonardo Ana Maria Casarin Fabiana E Constantini Joice P |
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Affiliation: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), IB, Departamento de Biologia, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil. amcl@rc.unesp.br |
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Abstract: | Coptotermes gestroi is an exotic species of termite that is a pest of great economical importance in Brazil. This paper relates the occurrence of a coelomic gregarine (Apicomplexa: Neogregarinida) in the abdomen of the foraging workers recently collected from field colonies of this termite. The termite hosts presented large, white abdomens because they carried 1 up to 3 cysts of gregarines filled with numerous lemon-shaped spores. Earlier developmental stages of this gregarine were not observed in the scanning microscope preparations nor in the histological slides of the infected termites. However, the lemon-shaped spores suggest a parasite gregarine of Mattesia genus, family Lipotrophidae. |
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Keywords: | Gregarine cyst Termite Isoptera Rhinotermitidae Mattesia Neogregarinida |
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