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ORIGINAL ARTICLE / ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL
MORPHOMETRIC AND CYTOGENETIC DESCRIPTION OF
BLATTICOLA
CHYDAEUS
SP. N. (NEMATODA, THELASTOMATIDAE),
A PARASITE OF
ANUROGRYLLUS MUTICUS
(DE GEER, 1773)
(ORTHOPTERA, GRYLLIDAE) IN ARGENTINA
DESCRIPCIÓN MORFOMÉTRICA Y CITOGENÉTICA DE
BLATTICOLA
CHYDAEUS
SP. N. (NEMATODA, THELASTOMATIDAE), UN PARÁSITO DE
ANUROGRYLLUS MUTICUS
(DE GEER, 1773) (ORTHOPTERA, GRYLLIDAE)
EN ARGENTINA
Nora B. Camino
1,2,3*
; Carolina Casanovas
1,2
& Sergio Rodríguez Gil
1,4
ISSN Versión Impresa 2218-6425 ISSN Versión Electrónica 1995-1403
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.24039/rnh20231721655
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2
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Argentina.
3
Investigador CIC, Comisión de Investigaciones Científ cas de la provincia de Buenos Aires, CIC, Argentina.
4
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científ cas y Técnicas, CONICET, Argentina.
* Corresponding author: nemainst@cepave.edu.ar
Nora B. Camino:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4910-3986
Carolina Casanovas:
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9774-6078
Sergio Rodríguez-Gil:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-1961
ABSTRACT
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. (Nematoda, T elastomatidae), parasitizing
Anurogryllus muticus
(De Geer, 1773) (Orthoptera,
Gryllidae) in Argentina is morphometric and cytogenetic described. It is characterized by the female with cuticle
annulated up to the middle of the body, the mouth surrounded by eight cephalic papillae, the stoma short with two
plates and one tooth, the amphid pore shaped, the esophagus divided into three parts, anterior cylindrical corpus,
isthmus distinct, and basal bulb valvated, the excretory pore located posterior to the basal bulb, the nerve ring situated at
the beginning of the esophagic isthmus, the intestine broadest anteriorly, the egg oval, smooth shell, in apical view show
a triangular section. T e tail appendage is short and conic and presents anal alae. T e vulva is protruding, the vagina is
long and posterior. T e male has one preanal papilla, one simple papilla, and one pair of postanal papillae. One spicule,
short and simple, without gubernaculum. T e tail appendage is short, conic, and pointed. T e cytogenetic study revealed
very small acrocentric chromosomes, this new species shows 3 and 3+X bivalent chromosomes, the sexual determination
is not given by haplodiploidy, the sexual chromosome was assumed to be X.
Keywords
:
Blatticola chydaeus
sp. n. – T elastomatidae – cricket – morphometric – cytogenetic – Argentina
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RESUMEN
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. (Nematoda, Telastomatidae), es un parásito de
Anurogryllus muticus
(De Geer, 1773)
(Orthoptera, Gryllidae) en Argentina, se describe al parásito morfométrica y citognéticamente. Se caracteriza porque la
hembra posee una cutícula anillada hasta la mitad del cuerpo, boca rodeada por ocho papilas cefálicas, estoma corto con
dos placas y un diente, anfdio piriforme, esófago dividido en tres partes, corpus anterior, istmo y bulbo basal valvado.
El poro excretor ubicado posterior al bulbo basal, el anillo nervioso situado al comienzo del istmo esofágico, el intestino
más ancho anteriormente, huevos ovales de cáscara lisa en vista apical muestran una sección triangular. Apéndice caudal
corto y cónico, con ala anal. Vulva protuberante, vagina larga y posterior. El macho tiene una papila preanal, una papila
simple y un par de papilas postanales. Una espícula, corta y sencilla, sin gubernáculo. El apéndice caudal corto, cónico
y puntiagudo. El estudio citogenético reveló cromosomas acrocéntricos muy pequeños. Esta nueva especie muestra
cromosomas bivalentes 3 y 3 + X, la determinación sexual no se da por haplodiploidía, el cromosoma sexual es X.
Palabras claves:
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. – Telastomatidae – grillo – morfometría – citogenética – Argentina
INTRODUCTION
During the day,
Anurogryllus muticus
(De Geer, 1773)
crickets stay in the galleries they make under the ground,
feeding on grass roots, and on warm nights, they often
leave their caves to feed on the surface. Te most serious
damage caused by crickets is to the grass, where they
can destroy the root system. Due to the signifcant loss
of root mass, a yellow spot can be observed (Rusconi,
2007). Tat is why it is necessary to fnd some biocontrol
agent, such as nematodos, which promise to be efective.
It is necessary to search for some biocontrol agent, such
as nematodes. Nematodes of the family Telastomatidae,
which belongs to the genus
Blatticola
, were found during
a feld survey. Te genus
Blatticola
Schwenk, 1926, who
was designated for
B. blatticola
as its type species. In 1932,
Chitwood considered this species a synonym of
B. blattae
(Graefe, 1860). Te confusion in the taxonomy of the
genus and type species was clarifed by Dale in 1966.
Earlier emended diagnosis of the genus was modifed
(Adamson & van Waerebeke, 1992) to accommodate
the species described by Chitwood (1932) in a revision
of the thelastomatid group. Te genus
Blattellicola
Basir, 1940 and
Blatellicoloides
Farooqui, 1966 agree
with
Blatticola
in all essential respects and they are
considered synonymous. All the species described up to
the present are parasites of cockroaches from all major
regions of the world. While conducting feld surveys on
agricultural pests in Argentinian areas of La Plata, Buenos
Aires province, we found cricket nymphs parasitized by
species of this thelastomatid group. Achinelly & Camino
(2007) described a new species,
Blatticola cristovata
, and
then Camino & Schargorodsky (2009) described
B.
biannulata
. Tese records represent the frst and second
reports of parasitized crickets in Argentina. Rodriguez-
Gil
et al.
(2017) described the morphology of another
new species of the genus and carried out a cytogenetic
study on
Blatticola ancoracauda
, also from Argentinian
crickets. In the present study, we found a new species of
the genus
Blatticola
.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Twenty-fve crickets were collected from the lawn in 66
th
Av., between 1
st
Av. (34° 55’ 13.318’’ S, 57° 55’ 42.994’’ W)
and 2
nd
St. (34° 55’ 16.612’’ S, 57° 55’ 46.432’’ W) in La
Plata, Buenos Aires province, from October 2017 to March
2018. Considering the biological cycle of the crickets,
were captured during the warm months of the Southern
Hemisphere, in coincidence with their reproductive season.
Te adults were found from October to December, and
between January and March, mostly nymphs. Te crickets
were captured using a tensioactive solution (detergent and
water) that causes an obstruction in their respiratory tract,
making them come out of the subterranean galleries they
inhabit. Te methodology followed consisted frstly on the
identifcation of the holes that were compatible the cricket’s
caves. Ten, each hole was flled with the tensioactive
solution until the crickets came out. Every single insect was
recollected in a jar and immediately carried to the laboratory
to execute its dissection by previously refrigerating it to
asleep. If the dissection couldn’t be done on the same day
of the recollection, the insects were kept in the refrigerator
at -4°C until the next day. Te dissection was carried
out under stereoscopic binocular lens, with the help of
dissection needles, tweezers, a Westcott pair of scissors and
under immersion in physiological solution. Te incision
begins at the anus, continuing by the cricket pleura until
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the thoracic region, then transversely by the sterno and it
fnishes by the other pleura, opening a window from where
the mid and posterior gut was retired. Te cricket was kept
in an 80% ethyl alcohol solution for posterior taxonomic
identifcation. Later on, the gut was opened side to side,
caring not to hurt the potential parasites, to make evident
their presence. Te nematodes were extracted and fxed in
diferent solutions for its posterior treatment, depending
on the study to be carried out. Each treatment is described
below.
Morphometric and systematic analysis of nematodes
For the morphological studies and systematic analysis TAF
(formalin 7%, triethanolamine 2 % and distilled water 91%)
was used as fxer (Courtney
et al.,
1955). 20 nematodes
were fxed. Te nematodes were killed by placing them
in distilled water at 60 °C for 2 minutes. Ten they were
moved to a 50% TAF solution in water for 48 hours, and
fnally they were placed in pure TAF. Fixed specimens were
photographed with a camera mounted on a Zeiss compound
microscope. All measurements are in µm, and presented as
the mean and standard deviation, with ranges in parenthesis.
Cytogenetic analysis
For cytogenetic studies, 139 crickets were analyzed, 22
of which were parasitized with at least one nematode.
16 nematodes adults were selected and placed in
distilled water for 30 minutes and then fxed in regular
Carnoy’s solution (six parts pure ethyl alcohol, three parts
chloroform and one-part acetic acid) and in a modifed
one (six parts pure ethyl alcohol, one-part chloroform
and one part acetic acid). Te cytogenetic preparations
were made using the squash technique and stained with
45% acetic orcein (Adamson, 1981; Lacadena, 1996;
Rodríguez-Gil
et al
., 2007). Te representative cells
of each stage were photographed with an Olympus
microscope with digital camera DP 71, using the program
DP Controller 3.3.1.292, the images were processed with
the programs Pixillion V Demo 6.08, and the karyotypes
were done with DRAWID (Kirov
et al
., 2017).
Te TCL, which represents the total length of a haploid
cell, was obtained summing the average of each one of the
homologous chromosomes.
Ethic aspect
: Te ethical biosafety standards established
for laboratory animals and good animal experimentation
practices were followed.
RESULTS
We recognized our new species belonging to the genus
Blatticola
Schwenk, 1926, which is characterized by the
female with cuticle annulated up to the middle of the
body, the mouth opening subtriangular surrounded by
eight cephalic papillae, the stoma short and telostoma
with two plates and one tooth in the telorhabdion (Fig. 1
A), the amphid small pore shaped, the oesophagus divided
into three parts, anterior cylindrical corpus, isthmus
distinct, and basal bulb valvated (Fig. 1 B), the excretory
pore located posterior to basal bulb, the nerve ring
situated at the beginning of the esophagic isthmus, the
intestine broadest anteriorly, the egg oval, smooth shell,
in apical view show a triangular section. Te basal bulb is
muscular and strong, and is inserted into the frst part of
the intestine. Te tail appendage is short and conic, and
presents anal alae (Fig. 1C). Te vulva is protruding, the
vagina is long and posterior with V = 70% (Fig. 1D). Te
male has one preanal papilla, one simple papilla and one
pair of postanal papillae (Fig. 2B). It also has a spicule,
short and simple, without gubernaculum (Fig. 2A). Te
tail appendage is short, conic and pointed.
Table 1
.
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. Mean and standard deviation of the diferent measurements, with ranges (minimum
and maximum) µm in parenthesis.
Total length5,500 ± 368.62 (5,200 – 6,300)1,125 ± 320 (1,000 – 1,800)
Diameter of head at level of cephalic papillae24 ± 5.2 (20-32)14.28 ± 4.6 (11-20)
Stoma length16 ± 0.6 (15-17)5.2 ± 0.2 (5- 6)
Stoma width8.8 ± 0.2 (8-9)3.5 ± 0.2 (3-4)
Width of body at level of nerve ring164.70 ± 42.1 (122-210)40.22 ± 3.8 (38-45)
Maximum body diameter282.35 ± 45.9 (222-318)47.36 ± 2.2 (46-50)
Width of body at level of posterior end 129.41 ± 13.6 (116-142)40 ± 3.8 (36-42)
Width of body at level of vulva241.17 ± 33.9 (220-290)
---
Distance anterior end to nerve ring 358.82 ± 45.4 (320-410)125.71 ± 18.6 (109-145)
(Continued Table 1)
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Oesophagus length620 ± 45.6 (550-660)194.98 ± 68.3 (120-260)
Distance from anterior end to excretory pore1,400 ± 305 (1,000 – 1,600)337.14 ± 642.5 (290-382)
Vagina length300 ± 60.9 (260-355)
---
Vagina width47.05 ± 4.3 (42-52)
---
V (distance anterior end to vulva/body length x 100)68.98 ± 1.6 % (68-71)
---
Spicule length ---32.35 ± 2.8 (29-35)
Spicule width---4.41 ± 0.6 (4-5)
Length of eggs88.23 ± 2.6 (85-90)
---
Width of eggs41.17 ± 1.5 (40-43)
---
Tail appendage length45.29 ± 2.8 (42-48)26.47 ± 1.02 (25-27)
(Continued Table 1)
A
B
C
D
Figure 1
. Blatticola chydaeus n. sp. Te female. A) Anterior end. B) Oesophagus and anterior end of intestine. C) Tail
appendage. D) Posterior end of the body showing the vulva. Bars = A, C: 100 µm; B, D: 200 µm.
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Taxonomic summary
Type host
: nymphs of the cricket
A. muticus
(Orthoptera,
Gryllidae).
Type locality
: Te crickets were collected from the lawn
in 66th Av., between 1
st
Av. (34° 55’ 13.318’’ S, 57°
55’ 42.994’’ W) and 2
nd
St. (34° 55’ 16.612’’ S, 57° 55’
46.432’’ W) La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Etymology:
Te name refers to a latin word that means
common or vulgar.
Type material:
Holotype and Paratypes were deposited
in the Helminthological collection of the Museo de La
Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
Site of infection:
Intestine, midgut.
Prevalence:
15.82 %.
Number of nematodes per nymph:
1-11.
REMARKS
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. is close to eight species of the
genus:
B. ancoracauda
(Rodriguez-Gil
et al
., 2017);
B. barryi
(Zervos, 1987);
B. biannulata
(Camino &
Schargorodsky, 2009);
B. caucasica
(Skrjabin, 1923);
B.
cristovata
(Achinelly & Camino, 2007);
B. monandros
(Zervos, 1983);
B. supellaimae
(Rao & Rao, 1965);
B.
Figure 2
.
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. Te male. A) Posterior end showing (arrow) the spicule and gubernaculum. B)
Posterior end showing (arrow) the genital papillae. Bars= 50 µm.
tuapakae
(Dale, 1966); by having the intestine of female
taper posteriorly and the nerve ring located around the
corpus.
B. ancoracauda
can be separated by the oval eggs,
smooth shell, triangular section in apical view, males with
one pair of preanal, and two pairs of postanal papillae,
and the tail appendage short, conical and pointed, females
with anchorage-like structure at tip for grasping and stick
to the gut wall.
B. barryi
can be distinguished from the
new species by having the vulva located at a distance of
17% of the length of the body, cuticle annulated only
anteriorly, distinct rectal glands, eggs with operculum,
males with three pairs of genital papillae, and two shallow
constrictions in the tail.
B. biannulata
is characterized
by
a short stoma with two sclerotised semicircles and
the telostoma with one movable tooth, eggs have a
triangular section, with three wings, the dorsal one and
two lateroventrals, males with one pair of preanal, and
two pairs of postanal papillae. It shares with our new
species the tail appendage with a structure of anchorage.
B. caucasica
is distinguished by having males with four
pairs of genital papillae, two pairs are preanal and two
pairs are postanal.
B. cristovata
can be distinguished by
having the stoma without tooth, with thick sclerotised
walls forming three pairs of plates aligned in two rows
with three pairs of plates, and the genital papillae arranged
ventrolaterally in one pair of preanal, one pair of adanal
and two pairs of postanal papillae.
B. monandros
can be
characterized by the distance from vulva to anus of about
7-17% of body length, three pairs of tail genital papillae,
the cuticle annulated only anteriorly, tail without sharply
linear point, corpus not broadest medially, fask shaped,
egg with operculum, and spicule short (less than 15µm).
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B. supellaimae
is separated by having the distance from
vulva to anus about 5% of body length, four pairs of tail
papillae, tail conical, sharply linear point, and nerve ring
located around half corpus.
B. tuapakae
is diferenced
by the distance from vulva to anus about 7% of body
length, three pairs of tail papillae, cuticle annulated only
anteriorly, tail convex and conoid, tending subulated near
tip. We can be compare our species with the type species,
B. blattae
(Chitwood, 1932) since this one possesses the
diagnostic characteristics of the genus, but difers from
our new species by females having the posterior part of
the intestine broader than medial intestine, outstretched
testis in the male, and the nerve ring situated around the
isthmus, near the base of the corpus.
Cytogenetics
139 crickets were analyzed, 22 of which were parasitized
with at least one nematode. 1 to 11 nematodes were
found per cricket. 243 cells (eggs) were analyzed,
54.32% of which were not dividing. Te rest was in
meiotic metaphase and had 3 chromosomes (19.75%),
3 chromosomes plus one univalent (20.16%) and 3
chromosomes plus 2 univalent (3.70%) (Table 2). For the
TCL calculations, 10 cells of the type 3 pairs of autosomes
and 3 pairs of autosomes plus 1 sexual chromosome in
meiotic metaphase were analyzed. Te mean length of all
the autosomal chromosomes was 0.15µ with a standard
deviation of 0.007µ. 38.61% of the TCL belongs to
the frst chromosome, 30.84% to the second one, and
30.55% to the third one. Te sexual chromosome, which
length is 0.07µ, was not considered for the autosomal
TCL because it only appeared in three of the analyzed
cells. Furthermore, as regards the group of cells with four
chromosomes, the one identifed as sexual chromosome
X was always univalent and appeared separated from the
equatorial plate formed by the bivalent autosomes.
Table 2
. Cytogenetics of
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp.
Chromosome
1 in µ
Chromosome
1’ in µ
Chromosome
2 in µ
Chromosome
2’ in µ
Chromosome
3 in µ
Chromosome
3’ in µ
Chromosome
3+x in µ
Cell 1
0,050,050,040,040,040,040,07
Cell 2
0,060,050,050,040,040,04
Cell 3
0,100,080,070,070,060,05
Cell 4
0,050,050,060,050,070,05
Cell 5
0,050,040,040,040,050,04
Cell 6
0,060,060,060,050,060,06
Cell 7
0,110,090,060,060,060,050,06
Cell 8
0,040,040,040,030,040,03
Cell 9
0,040,030,030,030,040,03
Cell 10
0,050,050,040,030,040,040,07
Mean
0,060,050,050,040,050,040,07
Standard
Deviation
0,020,020,010,010,010,010,01
Mean
Haploidy
0,06 0,05 0,05
TCL
38.61 30,84 30.55
Total mean haploidy in µ0,15
Standard deviation in µ0,007
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Table 3
. Comparision of TCL values. Percentage contribution of each chromosome to the haploid set of the species
described.
Species
% Chromosome
1 to TCL
% Chromosome
2 to TCL
% Chromosome 3
to TCL
% Chromosome
4 to TCL
% Chromosome
5 to TC
L
Hammerschmidtiella
indicus
40.62 ±3.4219.13 ±1.4016.67 ±1.5513.27 ±0.2310.80 ±0.58
Telastoma alii
29.73 ±1.0923.85 ±0.9719.60 ±1.0714.70 ±1.3112.09 ±0.66
Gryllophila basiri
26.97 ±2.0223.02 ±1.6019.74 ±1.4516.45 ±1.0413.81 ±0.55
Leidynema orientalis
30.00 ±0.4121.92 ±1.4616.66 ±1.3415.78 ±0.4515.61 ±0.40
Binema atrophicaudata
24.23 ±0.0012722.19 ±0.004920.66 ±0.00097218.11 ±0.0014214.79 ±0.00023
Binema ornata
25.93 ±0.92422.69 ±0.9418.70 ±0.46617.70 ±0.45314.96 ±0.475
Chitwoodiella asiatica
34.13 ±1.6329.94 ±2.0624.25 ±1.4621.55 ±1.017.06 ±0.77
Isobinema jairajpurii
28.63 ±0.0003223.13 ±0.0012920.04 ±0.0002415.42 ±0.0001712.77 ±0.00021
Schwenkiella
longicaudata
29.93 ±0.0014324.29 ±0.0012819.37 ±0.0002415.84 ±0.0001710.56 ±0.00014
Schwenkiella iciemi
37.23 ±0.0004322.65 ±0.0012916.66 ±0.0002214.06 ±0.000229.37 ±0.00014
Schwenkiella orientalis
32.71 ±1.4625.70 ±0.98717.28 ±0.7414.01 ±0.7810.28 ±1.98
Mirzaiella meerutensis
26.25 ±0.52523.02 ±0.29720.14 ±0.51816.19 ±0.4914.39 ±0.28
Psilocephala gryllotalpae
26.31 ± 0.77921.32 ±0.3319.11±0.4117.45 ±0.3015.79 ±0.22
Blatticola chydaeus
n.sp.
38.5430.3531.12
DISCUSSION
From the groups that were taxonomically described,
we only know the cytogenetics of 11 genera from the
Telastomatidae family, which include 24 species. Te
diploid number in females varies between 8 and 10
chromosomes. (Table 2).
Blatticola chydaeus
cytogenetics.
Te cytogenetics of the parasites of
Periplaneta
americana
,
Blatta orientalis, B. germanica
(cockroach),
Archispirostreptus tumuliporus
(diplopod) and
Gryllotalpa
africana
(cricket) have already been described.
Te cytogenetic description of
Blatticola chydaeus
sp. n. is
the second one that has been performed for the described
parasites of the genus. Te new species has the lowest
chromosome number of the Telastomatidae family, and
is the frst one that shows at least one sexual chromosome.
Tis is the reason why the sexual determination is not
given by haplodiploidy, being the frst case with this
kind of determination, unlike the other species of the
genus
Blatticola, B. ancorocauda
, described by Rodriguez-
Gil
et al
. (2017). 3.07% of the cells had two univalent
chromosomes. One possible explanation for these extra
chromosomes could be the presence of a B chromosome,
which has to be confrmed in future studies. All the
chromosomes have a similar contribution to the TCL,
which means that it is not possible to distinguish them
by their sizes and that the cells have a monomodal
karyotype. Te present results can only be contrasted
against those of Malti (2005) (Table 4) which shows
that, for the analyzed species, at least one chromosome is
diferent from the rest (at least, less than 5% of the TCL),
which would allow its identifcation and the cell would
have at least a bimodal karyotype (Table 3).
B. chydaeus
sp. n. has very small (0.03 µ min -0.11 µ max) acrocentric
chromosomes, Malti (2005), found submetacentric and
subtelocentric chromosomes. Unlike the cases that were
previously described with 2n females and n males (Table
2),
B. chydaeus
shows 3 and 3+X bivalent chromosomes.
Tis implies that the sexual determination is not given
by haplodiploidy, but could be given by the presence of
at least one sexual chromosome, being the frst case with
this type of determination for this group. Since it was not
possible to observe division in adults, it cannot be asserted
that the sexual determination belongs to the system XY
or ZW (in the former, the heterogametic sex is the male,
and in the latter, the female). For the present study, the
sexual chromosome was assumed to be X, since it is the
sexual determination in other Oxyuridae (Walton, 1923)
and there are no previous descriptions of nematodes with
ZW sexual determination.
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SpeciesPloidy (2n)HostLocalityCountryAuthor
Hammerschmidtiella
diesingi
(Hammerschmidt,
1838)
5
♂
10
♀
Periplaneta americana
(Linnaeus, 1758)
VancouverCanadá
Adamson
& Nasher
(1987)
Hammerschmidtiella
diesingi
No description
Periplaneta americana
Sevillaespaña
Cutillas
et al.
(1985)
Hammerschmidtiella
diesingi
5
♂
10
♀
Periplaneta americana
SiddarthNagarindiaRizvi (1997)
Hammerschmidtiella
indicus Chaudhary,
Kansal, Singh & Singh,
2015
10 (no sex
specifed)
Periplaneta americana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Hammerschmidtiella sp.
5
♂
10
♀
Archispirostreptus
tumuliporus (Karsch,
1881)
Arabie
Saoudite
Adamson
(1984)
Telastoma sp.
4
♂
8
♀
Archispirostreptus
tumuliporus
Arabie
Saoudite
Adamson
(1984)
Telastoma basiri
Singh,
1987
?
♂
8
♀
cockroach indet.indiaRizvi (1997)
Telastoma alii (Farooqui,
1970)
?
♂
10
♀
Periplaneta americana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Cameronia aspiculata
(Farooqui,1970)
4
♂
8
♀
Gryllotalpa
africana(Palisot de
Beauvois, 1805)
AligarhIndiaRizvi (1997)
Gryllophila nihali Rizvi,
Jairajpuri, Shah, Manjur,
2002.
?
♂
10
♀
Gryllotalpa africana
SiddarthNagarindiaRizvi (1997)
Leidynema appendiculatum
(Leidy, 1850)
?
♂
10
♀
Periplaneta americana
España
Cutillas
et al.
(1985)
Leidynema appendiculatum
5
♂
10
♀
Blatta orientalis
Linnaeus, 1758
Aligarh y
SiddarthNagar
IndiaRizvi (1997)
Leidynema orientalis
10 (no sex
specifed)
Blatta germanica
Linnaeus, 1767
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Psilocephala gryllotalpae
Singh, 2003
10 (no sex
specifed)
Gryllotalpa africana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Binema atrophicaudata
Singh & Malti 2003.
10 (no sex
specifed)
Gryllotalpa africana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Binema ornataTravassos,
1925
10 (no sex
specifed)
Gryllotalpa africana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Isobinema jairajpurii
Parveen, 1982
10 (no sex
specifed)
Gryllotalpa africana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Schwenkiella longicaudata
(Meyer, 1956)
10 (no sex
specifed)
Periplaneta americana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Schwenkiella icemi
(Schwenk, 1925) Basir
1956
10 (no sex
specifed)
Periplaneta americana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
Schwenkiella orientalis
(Singh and Agrawal, 1997)
10 (no sex
specifed)
Periplaneta americana
MeerutIndiaMalti (2005)
(Continued Table 4)
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Protellus dixoni Zervos,
1978
Arrhenotoky
Drymaplaneta
variegata (Shelford,
1909)
HextonEngland
Zervos
(1988)
Blatticola blattae(Graef e,
1860)
Arrhenotoky
Blattela germanica
From labFrom Lab
Pham &
Spiridonov
(1990)
Blatticola
ancoracaudaRodriguez Gil,
Camino & Gonz
ález 2017
4
♂
8
♀
Anurogryllus
muticus
(De Geer,
1773)
La PlataArgentina
Rodriguez-
Gil
et al.
(2017)
Blatticola chydaeus
sp.n.3 & 3+X
Anurogryllus muticus
La PlataArgentina
Figure 3
.
Blatticola chydaeus
n. sp. Cytogenetis. A) Undivided eggs. B) Eggs with 3 chromosomes. C) Eggs with 3
chromosomes and 1 sexual chromosome. D) Egg with 2 poles of anaphase of a cell with 3 chromosomes. T e arrows
point the chromosomes. T e tip of arrow shows the sexual chromosome. Bar 10=µm.
We report for the f rst time from Argentina nematodes
of the order Rhabditida, parasites of the intestine of
scorpions and we expand in spiders with a saprophytic
rhabditid nematode that causes death to the host
.
With
this last nematode we were able to keep it in the laboratory,
which allowed us to carry out the cytogenetic study,study
revealed has very small acrocentric chromosomes, this
new species shows 3 and 3+X bivalent chromosomes, the
sexual determination is not given by haplodiploidy, the
sexual chromosome was assumed to be X.
Author contributions
:
CRediT (Contributor Roles
Taxonomy)
NBC
= Nora B. Camino
CC
= Carolina Casanovas
SRG
= Sergio Rodríguez-Gil
Conceptualization
: NBC, CC, SRG
Data curation
: NBC, CC, SRG
Formal Analysis
: NBC, CC, SRG
Funding acquisition
: NBC, CC, SRG
Investigation
: NBC, CC, SRG
Methodology
: NBC, CC, SRG
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Resources
: NBC, CC, SRG
Software
: NBC, CC, SRG
Supervision
: NBC, CC, SRG
Validation
: NBC, CC, SRG
Visualization
: NBC, CC, SRG
Writing – original draft
: NBC, CC, SRG
Writing – review & editing
: NBC, CC, SRG
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