Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 14. (Budapest, 1982)
On the development of the uterus of some Anoplocephalidae (Cestoda: Paranoplocephala, Andrya) Dr. Frantisek TENORA — Dr. Claude VAUCHER — Dr. Éva MURAI Department of Zoology and Fur Animal Breeding, University of Agriculture, Brno, Czechoslovakia — Department of Invertebrates, Natural Historv Museum, Geneva, Switzerland — Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary "On the development of the uterus of some Anoplocephalidae (Cestoda: Paranoplocephala, Andrya)" - Tenora, F. - Vaucher, C. - Murai, É. - Parasit, hung. 14_: 79-H2 .1981-82. ABSTRACT. The development of the uterus in Paranoplocephala omphalodes (Hermann, 1783) and Andrya rhopalocephala (Riehm, 1881) are very similar. The essential difference is that in P. omphalodes the uterus develops both between the longitudinal excretory canals and overlapping bilaterally the canals as well, whereas in A. rhopalocephala the uterus develops between the longitudinal excretory canals only. The characteristics of the development of the uterus in both species are documented photographically. Attention is directed to the difference of the uterus morphology in three groups of the family Anoplocephalidae: a) species belonging to the genus Anoplocephaloides ; b) species of the genera Paranoplo cephala and Andrya; c) species of the genus Anoplocephala . Recently RAUSCH (1976) summarized the hitherto knowledge on the development of the uterus in several species belonging to the genus Paranoplocephala Lühe, 1910 emend. Rausch, 1976 and to the genus Anoplocephaloides Baer, J.923 emend. Rausch, 1976. In his study, he draw attention to the considerable similarity of this development in the species of the genus Paranoplocephala and Andrya Railliet, 1893. Later on (1982) TENORA et al. described the development of the uterus in Anoplocephaloides pseudowimerosa. In the present work, we study the development of the uterus in P. omphalodes and A . rhopalocephala and document it photographically. This report is by completed remarks on the structure of the uterus in Anoplocephaloides dentata (Galli-Valerio, 1905), A. mamillana (Mehlis, 1831) and Anoplocephala magna (Abildgaard, 1789). MATERIAL AND METHODS We used the following study material: Paranoplocephala omphalodes , host: Microtus arvalis, loc. Bük (West-Hungary), leg. MURAI; further the material from the same host, loc. Hodonin, Czechoslovakia, leg. TENORA. We also had at our disposal specimens of P. omphalodes from Microtus nivalis, loc . Bretolet, Suisse, leg. VAUCHER. Also included in the material were specimens of Andrya rhopalo cephala from the host Lepus europaeus, loc. Telki, Hungary, leg. MURAI. The photographs of Ano plocephaloides dentata (Galli-Valerio, 1905), A. mamillana (Mehlis, 1831) and Anoplocephala magna (Abildgaard, 1789) were made on the material deposited in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Suisse. We examined the material stained with acid carmine mounted in total preparations or sectionned transversally.
