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

Review of Tapeworms in Microtinae from Hungary Dr. Éva MURAI Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest "Review of Taoeworms in Microtinae from Hungary" - Murai, É. - Parasit / Hung

. 7. 111-142.1974. ABSTRACT. Prom 570 vole specimens (belonging to 7 species of Microtinae) 15 tapeworm species (7 in adult and 8 in larval form) were recorded in Hungary. Clethrionomys glareolus, Microtus arvalis, M. agrestis, M. oeconomus, Pitymys subterraneus and Ondatra zibethica were found to harbour 13, 10, 4, 1, 7 and 2 species of tapeworms, respectively. No tapeworms have been demonstrated from Arvicola terrestris. Adults of Catenotaenia cricetorum

, Paranoplo- cephala brevis, Andrya sp

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prostatandrya macrocephala

, Hymenolepis horrida

, H. asymmetrica and the larval form of Taenia crassiceps are usually found in voles only. Skr ,1a- binotaenia lobata occurs only in voles living in close community with Apodemus species. The larvae of other Taeniid species and the Tetrathyridium of Mesocestoides have a wider range of hosts in rodents. Vole helminths from Hungary were heretofore studied by SEY (1965), EDELÉNYI (1965, 1966), and TENORA (1967), publishing 9 fluke, 4 cestode, 2 nematode and 1 acanthocephalan species collected from our home voles. In the course of the study of the Collection of Cestodes of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, during a revision of the Hymenolepis species two more species were found (TENORA and MURAI, 1972; MURAI and TENORA, 1973b), while a revision of the Taeniidae revealed the presence of 5 additional tapeworms in Microtinae (MURAI and TENORA, 1973a). The present paper submits a faunistical survey of the tapeworms parasitizing Microtinae species. Ill