Dr. Kassai Tibor - Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 7. (Budapest, 1974)

area of M. symmetrica extends from Armenia to India. -The occurrence of the species in Hungary raises the problem of autochthonity or introduction. That the animal is autochthonous is supported by the morphological differences serving for the basis of subspecies separation, on the assumption that MathevoFig. 6: Mathevotaenia symmetrica occidentalis ssp

. n. A= scolex, B= egg, O hermaphrodite segments (Orig.) 147