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NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 35-39Publisher
RSNZ PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1080/03014220909510137
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Mermithidae; nematode; new host record; parasites; Phasmatodea; stick insect
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- New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology through the Defining New Zealand's Land Biota OBI
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Hitherto the Occurrence of mermithid nematodes (Nematoda: Mermithidae) parasitising stick insects has not been reported. Six mermithids were collected after emerging from specimens of New Zealand stick insects field collected and held in captivity. The mermithid nematodes are recorded from the stick insect genera Clitarchus Stal, Acanthoxyla Uvarov, Asteliaphasma Jewell & Brock and Tectarchus Salmon. Small subunit RNA (18S) sequence was obtained from one of the mermithid specimens. Phylogenetic analysis of this sequence and previously published nematode 18S sequences confirmed the morphological identification.
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