Trichofreitasia lenti Sutton & Durette-Desset 1991

Guillermo Panisse, María Del Rosario Robles, María Celina Digiani, Juliana Notarnicola, Carlos Galliari & Graciela Teresa Navone, 2017, Description of the helminth communities of sympatric rodents (Muroidea: Cricetidae) from the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Argentina, Zootaxa 4337 (2), pp. 243-262 : 252

Trichofreitasia lenti Sutton & Durette-Desset 1991

Site of infection. small intestine, common bile duct

Collection number. MLP-He7329

Host species. Akodon montensis . CG145

Localities. CAMB, RVSU and PPU

Comments. The morphological characters observed in the specimens agree with the original description and subsequent redescriptions given by Sutton & Durette-Desset (1991) and Suriano & Navone (1992), i.e. relatively large body ( 7–13 mm.), synlophe with 22 ridges stout and oriented perpendicularly to body surface, subsymmetrical caudal bursa with lateral pattern of type 2-2-1, well-developed dorsal lobe with dorsal ray distally divided and short spicules (230-310) in relation to body length.

Trichofreitasia lenti was originally described by Sutton & Durette-Desset (1991) in Oligoryzomys flavescens (Waterhouse, 1837) from Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Shortly after, Suriano & Navone (1992) described Hassalstrongylus multiovatus in Akodon simulator (Thomas, 1916) from Tucuman province, Argentina. Later, Digiani et al. (2007) synonymized it with T. lenti . This species was also recorded for A. montensis , A. cursor and O. nigripes from Serra dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ( Simões et al. 2011).

This is the first record of this species in Misiones province, Argentina.