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- Title
NEW RECORDS OF NEMATOMORPH PARASITES (NEMATOMORPHA: GORDIIDA) OF GROUND BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) AND CAMEL CRICKETS (ORTHOPTERA: RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE) IN WASHINGTON STATE.
- Authors
Looney, Chris; Hanelt, Ben; Zack, Richard S.
- Abstract
From 1998 to 2003, beetles and crickets infected with hairworms were collected from 4 localities within the Hanford Nuclear Site and the Hanford Reach National Monument, located in a shrub-steppe region of Washington State along the Columbia River. Infected hosts comprised 6 species of carabid beetles within 5 genera and 2 camel crickets within 1 genus; all are newly documented insect-nematomorph associations. A large proportion of the infected hosts (48%) were collected from a single site during a single collecting period. Of the 38 infected hosts, 32 contained a single worm, 4 hosts contained 2 worms, and 2 hosts contained 3 worms. Five of the hosts with multiple infections contained at least 1 male and 1 female worm. Camel crickets were infected with Neochordodes occidentalis while carabids were infected with an undescribed species of Gordionus. As the majority of hairworms are collected in the post-parasitic adult phase, host data and hairworm-arthropod associations remain poorly documented and our work adds new data to this area of nematomorph biology.
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (State); NEMATOMORPHA; GORDIIDAE; GROUND beetles; ORTHOPTERA
- Publication
Journal of Parasitology, 2012, Vol 98, Issue 3, p554
- ISSN
0022-3395
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1645/GE-2929.1