A description of a new species of Raillietiella (Pentastomida: Cephalobaenida) from Egyptian lizards with a reassessment of the taxonomic status of Raillietiella geckonis (Diesing, 1850) Sambon, 1910 and Raillietiella affinis Bovien, 1927

Raillietiella morenoi sp. n. (Pentastomida) from Gallotia atlantica (Peters and Doria, 1882) (Lacertidae) in the Canary Islands

“…Parasites were examined under a microscope. Annulus counting and both hook and spicule measurements were carried out following the methods described in Ali et al (1981Ali et al ( , 1982aAli et al ( -c, 1984a. The maturity of the female was estimated from the percentage of fully developed eggs in the uterus, as stated by Ali and Riley (1983).…”

An annotated catalogue of the tongue worms (Pentastomida) held in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

“…Hett (1934) suggested that Raillietiella affinis Bovien, 1927 was a junior synonym of R. indica Gedoelst, 1921. This was disputed by Ali et al (1982a), who maintained R. affinis as a separate species; see also Ali et al (1985).…”

“…Interestingly, they explicitly referred to some Indian material in the London Natural History Museum recovered from the garden lizard Calotes versicolor which was identified by Richard Heymons as R. geckonis, but which Ali et al (1981) had previously reidentified as Raillietiella hemidactyli Hett, 1934. The Berlin specimens were not explicitly mentioned by Ali et al (1981Ali et al ( , 1982a, but clearly share the same locality and host data, originate from London and were expliticly identified by Heymons as R. geckonis: "det R. Heymons". We know that there was an exchange of material between Heymons and London and thus we strongly suspect that ZMB 48027-28 are part of the same series, the London examples of which were reidentified by Ali et al (1981).…”

“…Raillietiella affinis Bovien, 1927. Remarks. According to Ali et al (1982a), Bovien's type series -an immature slide-mounted female and two smaller cotype females in alcohol -is deposited in the Natural History Museum, London. They did not mention a Berlin (alcohol) specimen.…”

“…Ali et al (1982a) discussed the problems associated with the species name Raillietiella geckonis, including the unsatisfactory original description and confusion about the true host species of the type material. They concluded that the name should be abandoned.…”