Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 67: 59–63, 2003
ISSN 1211-376X
New synonyms and notes on the distribution of Macrosiagon bipartitum
and Macrosiagon cyaniveste (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae)
Jan BATELKA
Nad vodovodem 16, CZ–100 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected]
Received July 16, 2002; accepted September 3, 2002
Published March 31, 2003
Abstract. Macrosiagon leseleuci Pic, 1906, Macrosiagon leseleuci var. vitalisi Pic, 1922, Macrosiagon
leseleuci var. inapicalis Pic, 1922, Macrosiagon uninotaticolle Chűjô, 1935 and Macrosiagon leseleuci
var. diversipenne Pic, 1951 are synonymized with Macrosiagon bipartitum (Fairmaire, 1894). Macrosiagon
variicolle (Fairmaire, 1894), Macrosiagon variicollis var. tonkinea Pic, 1906, Macrosiagon acutipenne
Gressitt, 1941, Macrosiagon atronitidum Gressitt, 1941, Macrosiagon corporaali Pic, 1950, Macrosiagon
cyaniveste var. pieli Pic, 1953, Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. bicoloriceps Pic, 1953, Macrosiagon cyaniveste
var. coomani Pic, 1953, Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. bicoloripes Pic, 1953, Macrosiagon cyaniveste var.
atricolor Pic, 1953 and Macrosiagon thibetanum Pic, 1953 are synonymized with Macrosiagon cyaniveste
(Marseul, 1876). The distribution of both species is mapped and their colour variability is discussed.
Taxonomy, type designation, synonymy, distribution, Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae, Macrosiagon,
Palaearctic region, Oriental region
INTRODUCTION
During my work on “The Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera – part: Ripiphoridae” I found new
synonyms as well as new faunistic data on some species of the genus Macrosiagon Hentz, 1830
from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. I also studied all the type specimens and some other
material. In this paper, the first part of research on two closely related species of the genus:
Macrosiagon bipartitum (Fairmaire, 1894) and M. cyaniveste (Marseul, 1876) is presented.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The lectotype and paralectotypes are designated in order to preserve stability of nomenclature in this group,
according to the Article 74.7.3. of the Code (ICZN 1999).
The following codes (after Arnett et al. 1993) identify the collections housing the material examined:
ISNB – Belgium, Bruxelles, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Didier Drugmand);
JBCP – Czech Republic, Praha, Jan Batelka collection;
MNHN – France, Paris, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Claude Girard);
NMPC – Czech Republic, Praha, National Museum (Svatopluk Bílý);
SMNS – Germany, Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde (Wolfgang Schawaller).
Exact label data are cited for all material; lines are indicated by single slash (/), separate labels are indicated by
double slash (//). Authors’ remarks and comments are found in square brackets: [p] – preceding data are printed,
[hw] – the same but handwritten. Localities on Fig. 1 are marked by bold numbers / letters.
Even though Damoiseau (1967) listed the female of Macrosiagon bipartitum deposited in ISNB as a holotype
I have designated the specimen as a paralectotype because: (1) the specimen is badly demaged by dermestid larvae
– nearly half the head, abdomen, pronotum and most of the legs are missing, (2) lectotype should be a male – i.
e. the specimen deposited in MNHN.
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Damoiseau (1967) mentioned deposition of 28 syntypes of M. variicolle in ISNB. In the material I received
from ISNB the following material was labelled as syntypes: 2 specimens of Mordellidae (gen. sp.), 3 specimens of
Anthicidae (gen. sp.) and one specimen of M. variicolle with no locality label. I excluded all these specimens from
the type series, so there are now only 22 designated paralectotypes of M. variicolle deposited in the ISNB.
Macrosiagon uninotaticolle, M. acutipenne and M. atronitidum are synonymized on the basis of the original
descriptions and no type material was examined.
SYSTEMATIC PART
Macrosiagon bipartitum (Fairmaire, 1894)
Rhipiphorus bipartitus Fairmaire, 1894: 35 (type locality: Barway).
Macrosiagon Leseleuci Pic, 1906: 44 (type locality: I’es Andaman); syn. n.
Macrosiagon Leseleuci var. Vitalisi Pic, 1922: 21 (type locality: Cambodge); syn. n.
Macrosiagon Leseleuci var. inapicalis Pic, 1922: 22 (type locality: Laos); syn. n.
Macrosiagon uninotaticolle Chűjô, 1935: 133 (type locality: Hokuto); syn. n. (Fig. 1-9).
Macrosiagon Leseleuci var. diversipenne Pic, 1951: 16 (type locality: Cochinchine); syn. n.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Rhipiphorus bipartitus:1 male, labelled: “Barway / P. Cardon [p] // Rhipiphorus bipartitus
/ Fairmaire, 1894 / Lectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan
Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire], (Fig. 1-1); 1 female, labelled: “Barway / P. Cardon [p] // Coll.
Fig. 1. Distribution of Macrosiagon bipartitum Fairmaire (numbers) and M. cyaniveste Marseul (letters).
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R. I. Sc. N. B. / Inde [yellow label – p] // Rhipiphorus / bipartitus / Frm. n.sp. [hw] // Holotype [red label – p] //
Rhipiphorus bipartitus / Fairmaire, 1894 / Paralectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum
/ (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [ISNB].
Macrosiagon leseleuci: 1 female, labelled: “Iles Andaman [p] // type [hw] // L. Ech. No. 258 / (1906) p. 44 [hw]
// Macrosiagon leseleuci / Pic, 1906 / Lectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum /
(Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-2, approx. 12.00N 92.45E); 1
female, labelled: “Iles Andaman [p] // type [hw] // Macrosiagon leseleuci / Pic, 1906 / Paralectotype / Jan Batelka
desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic];
1 female, labelled: “Iles Andaman [p] // type [hw] // type [red label – p] // Leseleuci / Pic [hw] // Macrosiagon
leseleuci / Pic, 1906 / Paralectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894)
/ Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic].
Macrosiagon leseleuci var. vitalisi: 1 female, labelled: “Cochinchine [hw] // v. vitalisi [hw] // Macrosiagon
leseleuci / var. vitalisi Pic, 1922 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire,
1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-3).
Macrosiagon leseleuci var. inapicalis: 1 female, labelled: “Cochinchine [hw] // v. inapicale [hw] // Leseleuci / Pic
[hw] // Macrosiagon leseleuci / var. inapicalis Pic, 1922 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon
bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-3).
Macrosiagon leseleuci var. diversipenne: 1 female, labelled: “Cochinchine [hw] // v. n. / diversipenne / mihi [hw]
// Macrosiagon leseleuci / var. diversipenne Pic, 1951 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon
bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-3).
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 female, labelled: “Kanara [p] // 142 [hw] // Rhipiphor. / bipartitus / Frm. n.sp. /
Konbir [hw] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L.
Fairmaire]; 1 female, labelled: “Shueqyin [hw] // 409 [hw] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan
Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire]; 1 male, labelled: “Cochinchine [red hw] // Macrosiagon
bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire], (Fig. 1-3); 1 male,
labelled: “Sumatra [hw] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll.
L. Fairmaire], (Fig. 1-4); 1 female, labelled: “Iles Andaman [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan
Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire], (Fig. 1-2).; 1 female, labelled: “Emenadia / I. Andam. [hw]
// Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire]; 1 female,
labelled: “S. Celebes / Patunuang / Jan. 1896 / H. Fruhstorfer [p] // Macrosiagon bipartitum / (Fairmaire, 1894) /
Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-5); 1 female, labelled: “Indien: Uttar Pradesh /
Rishikesh, Hardawar / 5.–7.7.1989 / leg. A Riedel” [Coll. SMNS], (Fig. 1-6, = 30.07N 78.19E); 1 female, labelled:
“India bor. 330 m / Uttar Pradesh bor. / Haridwar, Chila / 9.–14.8.1994 / lgt. M. Snížek” [Coll. JBCP]; 1 male,
labelled: “Thianysana / Java” [Coll. NMPC], (Fig. 1-7); 1 male/1 female, labelled: “Thailand / prov. Nan, Bo Khua
/ 1.–11.5.2001 / Moravec Petr [lgt.]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-8, approx. 18.47N 100.47E).
Macrosiagon cyaniveste (Marseul, 1876)
Rhipiphorus cyanivestis Marseul, 1876: 479 (type locality: Japon).
Emenadia gerstaeckeri Harold, 1878: 82 (type locality: Hakodate).
Rhipiphorus variicollis Fairmaire, 1894: 34 (type locality: Bengale, Barway); syn. n.
Macrosiagon variicollis var. Tonkinea Pic, 1906: 44 (type locality: Tonkin: Yen Bai); syn. n.
Macrosiagon acutipenne Gressitt, 1941: 528 (type locality: Tai-kwong Village, Lam-mo Distr., S. Hunan Province,
S. China); syn. n. (Fig. 1-T).
Macrosiagon atronitidum Gressitt, 1941: 529 (type locality: Kau-lin San (Chiu-lin Shan), alt. 1,000 meters, Linping District, N. Kwangtung Province, S. China); syn. n. (Fig. 1-U).
Macrosiagon Corporaali Pic, 1950: 12 (type locality: Sumatra); syn. n.
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. Pieli Pic, 1953: 15 (type locality: Chine); syn. n.
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. bicoloriceps Pic, 1953: 15 (type locality: Yunnan); syn. n.
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. Coomani Pic, 1953: 15 (type locality: Tonkin); syn. n.
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. bicoloripes Pic, 1953: 15 (type locality: Chine); syn. n.
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. atricolor Pic, 1953: 15 (type locality: Chine); syn. n.
Macrosiagon thibetanum Pic, 1953: 15 (type locality: Thibet); syn. n.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Rhipiphorus cyanivestis: 1 female, labelled: “Rhipiphorus cyanivestis / Mars. n. sp. [yellow,
round label, hw] // Rhipiphorus cyanivestis / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [hw] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste
/ (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Marseul].
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Rhipiphorus variicollis: 1 male, labelled: “Barway / P. Cardon [p] // Rhipiphorus variicollis / Fairmaire, 1894 /
Lectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]”
[MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire], (Fig. 1-A); 1 female, labelled: “Barway / P. Cardon [p] // variicollis / Frm. / Konbir
[hw] // Rhipiphorus variicollis / Fairmaire, 1894 / Paralectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon
cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire]; 8 specimens, labelled:
“Barway / P. Cardon [p] // Rhipiphorus variicollis / Fairmaire, 1894 / Paralectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p]
// Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. L. Fairmaire]; 22
specimens, labelled: “Barway / P. Cardon [p] // Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B. / Inde [yellow label – p] // Syntype [red letters
– p] // Rhipiphorus variicollis / Fairmaire, 1894 / Paralectotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon
cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [ISNB].
Macrosiagon variicollis var. tonkinea: 1 female, labelled: “Yen Bai / Tonkin [p] // Rh. variicollis / Fairm. var.?
[hw] // voisin on / gerstaeckeri Har. [hw] // peut no vois. / le pussila Gerst. [hw] // type [hw] // type [red label, p]
// variicollis / v. tonkinea / Pic [hw] // L. Ech. No. 258 / 1906 p. 44 [hw] // Macrosiagon variicolle / var. Tonkinea
Pic, 1906 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det.
2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-B = 21.42N 104.52N).
Macrosiagon corporaali: 1 male, labelled: “J. B. Corporaal [p] // Sumatra O. K. / Sibolangit [p] 21.10. 2[?] [hw]
/ 550 m [p] // type [hw] // type [red label, p] // Corporaali / n. sp. [hw] // Macrosiagon corporaali / Pic, 1950 /
Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]”
[MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-C).
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. pieli: 1 female, labelled: “11. 7. 35 [hw] / O. Piel, coll. [p] // Ku-Ling / [Chinese
inscription] / Musée Heude [p] // p. / 531 [p] // cyanivestis / var [hw] // type [hw] // type [red label, p] // cyanivest.
/ v. Pieli mihi [hw] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / var. Pieli Pic, 1953 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] //
Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic].
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. bicoloriceps: 1 female, labelled: “Yunnan [hw] // tete / bicolor [hw] // type [hw] //
type [red label, p] // v. bicoloriceps / mihi [hw] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / var. bicoloriceps Pic, 1953 / Holotype
/ Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN –
coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-D).
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. coomani: 1 female, labelled: “Lac / [?] [hw] // dessous / et [?] / noirs [hw] // type [hw]
// type [red label, p] // v. coomani / mihi [hw] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / var. coomani Pic, 1953 / Holotype / Jan
Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll.
M. Pic], (Fig. 1-B).
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. bicoloripes: 1 specimen (lacking antennae), labelled: “Koni Tchéon [hw] // type
[hw] // type [red label, p] // v. bicoloripes / mihi [hw] // Emenadia / cyanivesta M. / (desiré) [hw] // Macrosiagon
cyaniveste / var. bicoloripes Pic, 1953 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste /
(Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic].
Macrosiagon cyaniveste var. atricolor: 1 male, labelled: “Yunnan [hw] // type [hw] // type [red label, p] // v.
atricolor / mihi [hw] // cyaneovesta / var [hw] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / var. atricolor Pic, 1953 / Holotype /
Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] // Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN –
coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-D).
Macrosiagon thibetanum: 1 male, labelled: “Thibet [hw] // type [hw] // type [red label, p] // Thibetanum / mihi (?
var. / variicolle Fm.) [hw] // Macrosiagon thibetanum / Pic, 1953 / Holotype / Jan Batelka desig. 2002 [p] //
Macrosiagon cyaniveste / (Marseul, 1876) / Jan Batelka det. 2002 [p]” [MNHN – coll. M. Pic], (Fig. 1-E).
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 male, labelled: “China N.Yunnan / 27° 08’N 100° 14’E / Yulongahan mts. 2900– / –
3500m Baishui vill./ lgt. D. Král 7–12/7 ’90 [p]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-F); 1 male, labelled: “W-Nepal, Dhawalgiri,
/ Kali-Gandaki-Khola / 1600m, 18. VI. 1986 / C. Holzschuh leg. [p] // Magdi Distr. / Kopchepani [p]” [Coll. JBCP],
(Fig. 1-G); 1 female, labelled: “Vietnam N 1990 / Tam Dao 20–28. VI. / Vinh Phu prov. / Strnad Jan lgt. [p]” [Coll.
JBCP], (Fig. 1-H); 1 female, labelled: “Vietnam sept., 1990 / Sa- Pa, 11–19.6. / (Hoang Lien Son) / Mir. Dvořák legit.
[p]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-I, approx. 22.30N 104.00E); 1 female, labelled: “W. Sumatra / 1992 [hw]” [Coll. JBCP];
1 female, labelled: “Thailand bor. / Chiang Mai, 56 km NW / 99 25’ 19 05’ / 7–14.6. 1995 / Lgt. Snizek M. [p]” [Coll.
JBCP], (Fig. 1-J); 2 males, labelled: “Thailand 1–12.iii. 1996 / Chumphon prov. / Pha To env. 9° 48’ 98° 47’ / P.
Průdek leg. [p]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-K); 1 male /1 female, labelled: “Thailand Chumphon / prov. 27.iii.–14.iv. 1996
/ Pha To env. 9° 48’ 98° 47’ / P. Průdek leg. [p]” [Coll. JBCP]; 1 male /1 female, labelled: “Yunnan 1800–2500m /
25.10N 100.21E / Weishan mt. / 22–25.6.92 / D. Král leg. [p]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-L); 1 female, labelled: “N.
Korea / Sinpo / S. Murzin leg. / 25.VII. 90 [hw]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-M = 40.03N 128.12E); 2 females, labelled: “ENepal 12–13/7 2000 / Kangchenjunga Himal Mts. / Chiruwa vill. 1260m / 27.29N 87.45E (GPS) env./ Jan Schneider
lgt. [p] // Nepal Expedition / Jan Farkač, David Král / & Jan Schneider 2000 [p]” [Coll. JBCP], (Fig. 1-N); 1 male,
labelled: “Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B. / Thailande (Loei) / Na Haeo (bio station) / 05–12. V. 2001 / Light trap / Leg. Constant
& Grootaert [yellow label – p]” [ISNB], (Fig. 1-O = 17.29N 101.35E).
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VARIABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION
Specimens of M. bipartitum vary in colour from black to testaceous or orange, with the elytra black
or testaceous or more rarely as in the holotype the anterior half is testaceous and posterior black.
All the specimens of M. bipartitum I have seen had a testaceous pronotum with black spot in the
middle. This species is broader than M. cyaniveste, with a characteristically shaped head and
elytra, and the males have shorter antennal segments than M. cyaniveste. This species occurs
mainly in the Oriental region with northernmost reports from Taiwan (Chűjô 1935) and Uttar Pradesh
(India).
M. cyaniveste is very variable in colour; many combinations of red and black are mentioned by
Kôno (1927) from Honshu (Fig. 1-R) and Shikoku (Fig. 1-S). The species northern limit is Primorsky
county (Lafer 1992) (Fig. 1-P) and Hokkaido (Harold 1878) (Fig. 1-Q), but occurs also in the Oriental
region.
Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to all curators mentioned above, who enabled the author to study material in their charge, Nicole
Berti (MNHN), Jocelyne Guglielmi (MNHN) and Jan Růžička (Czech Agricultural University, Prague) for help
during my work in Paris. I am obliged to Léon Baert (ISNB) for his help in obtaining type material. David Král
(Charles University, Praha) critically commented on the manuscript. Last but not least I am obliged to Michel
Perreau (Paris) for his great hospitality during my stay in Paris in 2002.
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concentration procedures, and special stains for microfilarial sheath. In chapter 32 discussing parasite recovery
and xenodiagnosis in great detail described are specific culture techniques and animal inoculation. Chapter 33 is
concerned with fixation and special preparation of solutions to induce relaxation in adult helminths, and with
mounting miscellaneous ectoparasitic arthropods for examination. Chapter 34 centres attention upon artifacts
that can be confused with parasite organisms. Final chapter 35 is concerned with laboratory equipment, namely
with the microscope and other instruments, glassware and miscellaneous supplies, and with safety and quality
systems recommended for parasitology laboratory. In conclusion, there are eight appendices. Appendix 1 contains 19 informative tables presenting overviews of human parasites, geographical distribution of selected parasitic infections, body sites related to possible parasite invasion, and other diagnostic aspects. Appendix 2 contains
flowcharts and staining tables for diagnostic procedures. Appendix 3 outlines common problems in parasite
identification, notably paired drawings of “looks alike”, relative sizes of helminth eggs and tabular size comparisons of adult and larval nematodes. Subsequent appendices provide miscellaneous information: quality control
recording sheets, commercial supplies and suppliers, reference sources, colour plates and “late breaking” information published in the first 6 months of 2000. Finally, there is a glossary of professional terms relevant to
diagnostic parasitology. The textual part is extensively illustrated by a wealth of figures composed of line
drawings, schemes, photographs and microphotographs featuring protozoans, helminths and arthropods, views of
external and internal structural parts, life and transmission cycles, histopathological abnormalities, clinicopathological aspects and lesions, radiological imaging, retinal findings, laboratory procedures, etc. Moreover, there are
12 full-page colour plates depicting diagnostic stages of parasites. This edition condenses a huge body of information and presents a most exhaustive modern handbook of diagnostic parasitology. A recent similar monograph of
the same authoress: Practical Guide to Diagnostic Medical Parasitology (ASM) occurred in print in 1999
(for review see Acta Zool. Bohem., 64, 4, 2001).
Jindřich Jíra
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