First report of Potorolepis Spassky, 1994 (Eucestoda: Hymenolepididae) from China, with description of a new species in bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae)

Abstract

Potorolepis gulyaevi sp. n. (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) is described from the Chinese horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus sinicus Andersen (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae), from southern China. The new species differs from known species of the genus by the shape, number and size of rostellar hooks, the relative position and length of the cirrus-sac and the morphology of gravid uterus. This is the first report of a member of the genus from non-marsupial mammals and the first record of a Potorolepis Spassky, 1994 from eastern asia. the generic diagnosis of Potorolepis is amended.

Molecular data confirm the taxonomic position of Hymenolepis erinacei (Cyclophyllidea: Hymenolepididae) and host switching, with notes on cestodes of Palaearctic hedgehogs (Erinaceidae)

“…Gulyaev & Melnikova (2005) transferred four species from moles from the genus Hymenolepis to the genus Talpolepis . The eggs of Talpolepis peipingensis (Hsü, 1935), parasitizing moles Mogera robusta Nehring, 1891 from Primorskii Kray (Russia), Talpolepis dymecodontis Sawada & Harada, 1990, parasitizing Dymecodon pilirostris True, 1886 from Japan and Scaptochirus moschatus Milne-Edwards, 1867 from China, as well as Potorolepis gulyaevi Makarikova & Makarikov, 2012, from the bat Rhinolophus sinicus Andersen, 1905 from China, have thick outer coats and the length of the embryonic hooks are 12–16, 14–18 and 13–15, respectively (Sawada & Harada, 1990; Sawada et al ., 1992; Gulyaev & Melnikova, 2005; Makarikova & Makarikov, 2012); in contrast, the outer coat in H. erinacei is thin and the length of hooks varied from 10 to 13. The outer coat of Talpolepis mogerae Sawada & Koyasu, 1991 is also thin and the oncosphere is oval, but the embryonic hooks are small (7) and the antero-lateral hooks are relatively thin (Sawada & Koyasu, 1991).…”