SPOROZOA, GREGARINIDA 



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spherical macrogametes and fusiform microgametes; zygotes or 

 amphionts encapsulated, passed out of host or enter gut epithelium, 

 dividing to produce many sporozoites (autoinfection). 



S. henleae N. (Fig. 204, b, c). In gut of Henlea leptodera; mature 

 trophozoites about 70/i by 9/x; attached trophozoite with a clear 

 wart-like epimerite; female and male sporadins; macrogametes, 



Fig. 204. a, Beccaricystis loriai, X570 (Cognetti); b, c, Schaudinnella 

 henleae (b, X885; c, XlOOO) (Nusbaum); d, e, Diplocystis schneideri 

 (d, Xl4;e, spore, X2000) (Kunstler) ; f , Urospora chiridotae, X200 (Pix- 

 ell-Goodrich); g-i, Gonospora minchini (g, a young trophozoite in host 

 egg; h, a mature trophozoite, X330; i, sporadins in association, X80) 

 (Goodrich and Pixell-Goodrich). 



5-7. 5ju in diameter; microgametes, spindle-form, 1-1. 25^ long; 

 sporozoites rounded oval, 2.5-3/x in diameter. 



Family 7 Diplocystidae Bhatia 



Coelomic or gut parasites of insects; trophozoites solitary or asso- 

 ciated early in pairs; spores round or oval, with 8 sporozoites. 



Genus Diplocystis Kunstler. Trophozoites spherical to oval; asso- 

 ciation of 2 individuals begin early in spherical form; spores round 

 or oval, with 8 sporozoites; in coelom of insects. 



