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An Unusual Protozoal Infection of Tsetse Flies ( Glossina Weidemann 1830 spp.) in West Africa
Author(s) -
Foster R.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
the journal of protozoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.067
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1550-7408
pISSN - 0022-3921
DOI - 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1964.tb01727.x
Subject(s) - flagellate , biology , arthropod mouthparts , midgut , hindgut , parasite hosting , zoology , trypanosoma , helminths , virology , ecology , larva , botany , world wide web , computer science
SYNOPSIS.Glossina palpalis R‐D 1830 and G. pallicera Bigot 1891 in northwest Liberia were found to be infected with a flagellate parasite which never invaded the mouthparts. The parasite occurred as a number of distinctive crithidial and trypanosomal forms, and although infection was commonly confined to the midgut, it occasionally extended into the hind‐gut; infections of the hindgut only were rare. The parasites also infected the coelomic cavity of the host. Attempts to produce further developmental stages in N.N.N. medium, rat, crocodile, varanid and hen failed. There are morphological similarities between the parasite and some developmental stages of Trypanosoma grayi Novy 1906, but reasons are advanced why the two forms do not belong to the same, but possibly to closely related species.