Menzbieria is a genus of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexa.
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Menzbieria adelae | |
Species in this genus infect insects (Coleoptera and Lepidoptera).
Taxonomy
editThis genus was created by Bogoyavlensky in 1922.[1]
The type species is Menzbieria hydrachnae.
Description
editSpecies of this genus have only rarely been reported.
The protozoa are spread by the orofaecal route.
The trophozoites are found in the fat body, gut and Malphigian tubes.
The schizonts may be intra or extra cellular.
Two types of merogony may occur and this may occur in the lumen of the gut or extraluminally.
The gametes are spherical and of similar size (isogamy) and bud from the surface of the gamont.
The oocysts are of the actinocephalid type (lemon shaped).
There may be 16 or 32 sporocysts per oocyst.
Host records
edit- Menzbieria adelae - green longhorn butterfly (Adela reaumurella)
- Menzbieria chalcographi - great spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus micans)
- Menzbieria hydrachnae - Hydrachna species
References
edit- ^ Bogoyavlensky N (1922) Menzbieria hydrachnae n. g., n. sp. Archives de la Societe Russe de Protistologie 1: 10-21
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