The bloodfeeding leech genus Placobdella is dominated by North American diversity, with only a single nominal species known from Central America and one from the Palearctic …
Haemogregarines are blood parasites with a life-cycle involving a vertebrate as the intermediate host and an invertebrate as the definitive host and vector. Extensive …
R Scardino, M Arculeo, V Arizza, G Bazan… - Natural History …, 2022 - sisn.pagepress.org
The host-parasite system “Emys trinacris-Placobdella costata-Haemogregarina stepanowi” is known for Sicily, but scarce information is available to date about the distribution of the two …
A Kalate, A Keikhosravi… - Arthropod …, 2024 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
The current patterns of biodiversity have significantly been affected by glacial-interglacial cycles during the Pleistocene period. True freshwater crabs are considered as poor …
The genus Placobdella (Glossiphoniidae) has a centre of species concentration in North America. The type species P. costata is the only representative in the Palaearctic region …