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Specimen #1164

Specimen record details
Entry Number 1164
Nematode Genus Reesimermis
Nematode Species muspratti
Host Genus Aedes
Host Species sp.
Common Name Abdominal haemocoele or thorax*
Country Zambia
City/Locale Livingston (elevation 3000 ft., collected from tree-holes, part. from Ricinodendron rautanenii, Mungongo or Mwangwamui tree, 1945-1965.) (Cultured in Liverpool, England by W. W. MacDonald & collected 2/8/73.)
Collector J. Muspratt via W. W. MacDonald
Date Collected 1973 Feb 03
Date Received 1973 Feb 26
Determined By William R. Nickle
Taxon Author B. A. Obiamiwe & W. W. MacDonald
Disposition of Sample Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Nematodes In Insect
Total Samples 1
Slide Number T-1653p, T-1654p, T-1655p, T-1656p, T-1657p, T-1658p, T-1659p, T-1660p (Paratypes)
Reference Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology (1973) 67 (4): 439-444.
Remarks Other Host: Culex sp. *Less often in thorax.