Dr. Éva Murai szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 4. 1987 (Budapest, 1987)
Murai, É.: Triodontolepis torrentis sp. n. (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) a parasite of Neomys fodiens (Insectivora)
Differential diagnosis: T. torrentis sp. n. differentiated well from the other Triodon tolepis species: by the number and measurements of rostellar hooks, by the absence of egg capsules (see the identification key). Triodontolepis bifurca (Hamann, 1891) (Figs 10-15). Hosts: Neomys fodiens and N. anomalus. - Localization: small intestine. - Intensity: 1-5 specimens. - Extensity: 6%. Material examined: 37 specimens from 12 N. fodiens and 1 N. anomalus in ten localities were found. Host: N. fodiens: Slovakia, Polana Mts, 12 September, 1978, leg. DUDICH, 1 specimen; Nizke Tatry Mts, Staré Hory, Rychtarová dolina, 11 May, 1979, leg. DUDICH, 5 specimens; Nizke Tatry Mts, Jarabá, 20 September, 1983, leg. MURAI, 12 specimens; Vel'ka Fatra Mts, Harmanec, Bystrická dolina, 28 August, 1979, leg. DUDICH, 3 specimens in 4 slides; Cergov Mts, Lenartov, Vecny potok, 10-11 November, 1981, leg. MURAI, 2 specimens; átolické vrchy Mts, Chyzné, 13 September, 1982, leg. MURAI, 6 specimens in 9 slides; Slov ensky Raj, Novoveská Huta, 25 October, 1984, leg. MURAI, 3 specimens in 5 slides; Slovensky Raj, Mlinky, Havrania dolina, 26 October, 1984, leg. MURAI, 4 specimens in 6 slides; Hungary, Kisbalaton, 10 December, 1964, leg. EDELÉNYI, 1 specimen in 3 slides (identified by EDELÉNYI as Vampirolepis tridontophora) . Host: Neomys anomalus: Hungary, Pilis Mts, Pilisborosjenő, 22 August, 1971, leg. HAAS, 1 specimen. Morphological and metrical characters of T. bifurca Length of strobila 12-22 mm, maximum width 0. 5, number of segments 320-370, of which 60-75 containing egg capsules (1 in each segment). Scolex diameter 0.40-0.56, length 0. 3-0. 5. Rostellum 0. 12-0. 16 x 0. 10-0. 13, with 10 strong rostellar hooks. Hooks measure 0.068-0.078 in the Carpathians and 0. 061-0. 069 in Hungarian localities (two cases only); basis of rostellar hooks 0.056-0.065 (0. 052-0.058 in the latter two cases). Handle and blade both 0. 035-0. 038, length of guard 0. 035. The tip of the guard-lobe 0. 020-0. 022 wide and in the centre of the tip a 10 jum deep notch (Figs 10- 11). Diameter of suckers 0. 18-0. 25, rostellar sac 0. 22-0. 36 x 0. 15-0. 25. Testes in one line, two aporal, one poral. Cirrus sac 0.09-0. 010 x 0.020, cirrus spinose, vesicula seminalis interna and externa present. A small ovary in the centre of middle field, vitelline gland posterior to it. Uterus saccular, forming egg capsule 0. 1260. 160 x 0. 180-0. 200, the chitinous wall of the capsule 5jum thick. The eggs in the uterus measure 0. 050 x 0. 035, the embryo 0. 027-0. 035 x 0. 020-0. 027, length of the embryonal hooks 0.011-0.012. 6 7 8 9 Figs 6-9. Rostellar hooks of Vampirolepis species from bats (6= V. miniopteri (Sandars, 19 57), after the orig. description, 7= V. baeri Murai, 1976, orig., 8= V. acuta (Rudolphi, 1819), orig., 9= Hymenolepis phyllostomi Vaucher, 1982, after the orig. description)
