| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Authors: | J. - L. Justine |
| Journal: | Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. (4), section A |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Pagination: | 333-348 |
| Date Published: | 1989a |
| Keywords: | Central Africa, Chiroptera, endoparasites, Gabon, parasitism, Rhinolophidae, Rhinolophus silvestris |
| Abstract: | Description of Capillaria chabaudi n. sp., a stomach parasite of Rhinolophus silvestris from Gabon (Africa). The male has two small and thick latero-caudal alae, a membranous caudal bursa and a non-spiny cirrus. The caudal bursa is supported by two forked expansions. The spicule (665-840 µm in length) is well visible, little sclerified, without transverse striations, and with a pointed posterior extremity. The female bears a vulvar appendage. The inner face of the wall of the vagina uterina shows transverse striations. The four species morphologically most closely related to C. chabaudi n. sp. are C. speciosa sensus Zdzitowiecki, 1970, a parasite of European bats, C. pipistrelli sensu Wang, 1982, C. kashmirensis and C. rhinolophi, three species parasitic in Asian bats. C. chabaudi is the first species of Capillaria found in central Africa in a Chiroptera. |