Asida lutosa Solier, 1836

Nazimov, Serhii, 2024, Gregarines of mass species of darkling beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) of Ukraine, Ecologica Montenegrina 73, pp. 26-38 : 31

Hosts: Asida lutosa Solier, 1836 .

Habitat: intestine.

Description: Gamont is biaxial. The protomerite is flattened, the deutomerite is oval, rounded or slightly elongated. The nucleus is small, spherical, and contains 1 karyosome. The ratio of the protomerite length to the total length of the gamont is approximately 1:4-1:5. Morphological traits of gamonts are presented in Table 2.

Extensiveness and intensity of infestation: The average extensiveness of A. lutosa infestation by this species of gregarine was 30.7%. The maximum total number of gregarine gamonts of this species in the body of one individual A. lutosa was 16.

Literature records: The morphology of this species is described in detail by Wellmer (1911). Registered in Adesmia metallica , Crypticus quisquilius , Uloma latimanus and Taraxides laevigatus .

General distribution: France ( Tuzet & Ormieres 1956), Germany ( Geus 1969), Zaire ( Théodoridès & Jolivet 1959), Gabon ( Théodoridès et al. 1976), Japan ( Hoshide 1958, 1979).