BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHES — ROTH & WILLIS 203 



HELMINTHS * FOR WHICH COCKROACHES SERVE AS 

 INTERMEDIATE HOSTS 



The use of the asterisk (*) is explained in footnote 3, page 4. 



Phylum ACANTHOCEPHALA 



Order ARCHIACANTHOCEPHALA 

 Family OLIGACANTHORHYNCHIDAE 

 * Prosthenorchis elegans (Diesing, 1851) Travassos, 1915 

 Natural host. — Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Urbain, 

 1938, 1938a; Brumpt et al., 1939). 



Experimental hosts. — Blaherus atropos and Leucophaea maderae, 

 France (Brumpt and Desportes, 1938). 



♦Prosthenorchis spirula (Olfers in Rudolphi, 1819) Travassos, 1917 

 Natural host. — Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Urbain, 



1938, 1938a; Brumpt et al, 1939) ; Netherlands (Thiel and Wiegand 



Bruss, 1946). 



Experimental hosts. — Blattella germanica, Netherlands (Thiel and 



Wiegand Bruss, 1946). 

 Blaherus atropos and Leucophaea maderae, France (Brumpt and 



Desportes, 1938). 



Family MONILIFORMIDAE 

 * Moniliformis dubius Meyer, 1932 



Natural hosts. — Periplaneta americana, Brazil (Magalhaes, 1898; 

 Travassos, 1917) ; Gold Coast (Southwell, 1922) ; India (Pujatti, 

 1950) ; U.S.A. (Burlingame and Chandler, 1941 ; Moore, 1946). 



Periplaneta australasiae , India (Pujatti, 1950). 



Experimental hosts. — Blattella germanica, Japan (Yamaguti and 

 Miyata, 1942). 



Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Chandler, 1941 ; Moore, 1946) ; 

 Japan (Yamaguti and Miyata, 1942). 



♦Moniliformis kalahariensis Meyer, 1931 

 Natural host. — Blattella germanica, India (Meyer, 1931, 1932). 



* The following helminths also have been stated in the literature to pass their 

 intermediate stages in cockroaches: Hymenolepis diminuta (Rudolphi, 1819) 

 [Blanchard (1891)]; Inennicapsifer madagascariensis (Davaine in Grenet, 

 1870) [Baer (1956)]; Spirocerca sangninolcnta (Rudolphi, 1819) [Seurat 

 (1913)]. These doubtful records are discussed in Roth and Willis (i957a). 



