Lesleyella, Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, María Celina, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973, Parasite (Paris, France) 22, pp. 1-12 : 8

V- Genus Lesleyella n. gen. ( Fig. 2E )

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Type and sole species: Lesleyella wauensis (Smales, 2010) n. comb.

Hosts: Muridae ( Rodentia ).

Host site: Small intestine.

Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Etymology: The genus is named in honor of Dr Lesley R. Smales in recognition of her significant contribution to knowledge on the Australasian helminths.

Definition: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe with 14–17 ridges in both sexes. Ridges continuous. Careen absent. Ridges unequal in size, median to small. Left ridge distinct from ridge 1’. Ridge 1’, right-dorsal ridges (except right ridge) and ventral-left-ventral ridges largest. Axis of orientation oblique. Characteristic bursal pattern of type 1–4 with short common trunk. Dorsal ray divided within proximal half. Each spicule ending in one tip. SpL/BL: 7%.

Figures

Figure 2. Synlophes at mid-body of the genera treated in this work. Type-species. (A) Odilia (O. mackerrasae), male. (B) Hasegawanema n. gen. (Hasegawanema mamasaense n. comb), female. C, Hughjonestrongylus (H. ennisae), female. (D) Chisholmia n. gen. (Chisholmia bainae n. comb.), male. (E) Lesleyella n. gen. (Lesleyella wauensis n. comb.), female. (F) Sanduanensis n. gen. (Sanduanensis dividua n. comb.), female. (G) Parasabanema (P. szalayi), male. (H) Equilophos n. gen. (Equilophos polyrhabdote n. comb.), female. Abbreviations: 1, 1’, 2’, 3’: ridges 1, 1’, 2’, 3’; AO: axis of orientation of the ridges; c: careen; G: gap; lr: left ridge; n: last dorsal ridge; n’: last ventral ridge; rr: right ridge. A, H, modified from [5]. B, modified from [16]. C, G, modified from [26]. D, modified from [1]. E, modified from [20]. F, modified from [25]. Scale-bars: 50 mm.