REDESCRIPTION OF NEOTYPHLOCERAS CRASSISPINA HEMISUS JORDAN (SIPHONAPTERA: CTENOPHTHALMIDAE: NEOTYPHLOCERATINI)

LOPEZ BERRIZBEITIA MF; SANCHEZ JULIANA; M MÓNICA DIAZ; RUBEN BARQUEZ; MARCELA LARESCHI

JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

AMER SOC PARASITOLOGISTS

Lugar: Washington, Estados Unidos; Año: 2015 vol. 101 p. 145 - 149

0022-3395

Neotyphloceras crassispina hemisus Jordan is redescribed from male and female specimens collected at the type locality (Otro Cerro, Catamarca Province, Argentina) and nearby localities. New diagnostic morphological characters for both sexes are provided, which include the shape of the upper lobe of the fixed process of clasper, the crochet of the aedeagus and the shape and chaetotaxy of the distal arm of sternum IX for males, and the contour of the distal margin of sternum VII for females.