Menzbieria
| Menzbieria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | Sar |
| Superphylum: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa Levine 1970 |
| Class: | Conoidasida Levine 1988 |
| Subclass: | Gregarinasina Dufour 1828 |
| Order: | Neogregarinorida Grassé & Schrével 1953 |
| Family: | Lipotrophidae Grassé 1953 |
| Genus: | Menzbieria Bogoyavlensky 1922 |
| Species | |
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Menzbieria adelae | |
Menzbieria is a genus of parasitic protozoa of the phylum Apicomplexa.
Species in this genus infect insects (Coleoptera and Lepidoptera).
Taxonomy
This genus was created by Bogoyavlensky in 1922.[1]
The type species is Menzbieria hydrachnae.
Description
Species 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
- Menzbieria adelae - green longhorn butterfly (Adela reamurella)
- Menzbieria chalcographi - great spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus micans)
- Menzbieria hydrachnae - Hydrachna species
References
- ↑ Bogoyavlensky N (1922) Menzbieria hydrachnae n. g., n. sp. Archives de la Societe Russe de Protistologie 1: 10-21
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