New Species of Gregarines from Millipedes of Mysore State, India*

Abstract

Five species of millipedes under investigation revealed the presence of six species of gregarines, five of which are new. A new method for the study of development of the gametocyst is described. A list of the millipedes and their gregarine parasites is given below:

Phylogeny of stenophorid gregarines from millipedes (Diplopoda)

“…Thus, despite the lack of information on the gametocyst dehiscence and the oocyst morphology, these gregarines were assigned to the genus Stenophora. The parasite of Thyropygus carli is very similar in appearance to Stenophora conjugata Rodgi et Ball, 1961 described from Phyllogonostreptus nigrolabiatus Newport, 1844 in Southern India (Rodgi, Ball, 1961). Both species have a dome-shaped protomerite, an elongated deutomerite and a boatshaped nucleus, but gamonts of S. conjugate are smaller with the maximal size 460 µm (Rodgi, Ball, 1961), so Stenophora cattiensis sp.n.…”

Description of a new species cephaline gregarine Stenophora bristili (Apicomplexa, Sporozoea) from Millipede (Chondromorpha severini) in Aurangabad district (M.S), India

“…After comparison with Stenophora species described from millipede, the present species was found to be closest to S. ellipsoidi (Chakrawarty,1934), S. mahabaleshwari (Amoji and Rodgi, 1972), S. cassidiformis (Rodgi and Bhall, 1961) S. ozakii, (Hukui, 1952 andGulbhile, 2005) S. papillata (Karandikar and Rodgi, 1955), S. conjugate (Rodgi and Ball, 1961) and S. akiyoshinsis (Hyoma and Hoshide, 1969) but it shows some distinguishing characters which makes it different from all of them. The shape of the body is ellipsoidal in the S. elliposoidi and S. cassidiformis, in the S. mahabaleshwari it is leaf like.…”