Bird cestodes from Huinay (Comau Fjord), Chilean Patagonia: several species of the family Dilepididae (Platyhelminthes, Cyclophyllidea), with the erection of two new genera

Abstract

Birds in the Huinay area, Los Lagos region, Chile, were studied for parasites. Here we report 2 new genera and species of the family Dilepididae (Cyclophyllidea) found in common local passerines: Janinellia peebeehi gen. n., sp. n. was found in Elaenia albiceps (Tyrannidae) and Huinaylepis elegans gen. n., sp. n. was found in Aphrastura spinicauda (Furnariidae). Other dilepidid parasites are reported for the first time from Xolmis pyrope (Tyrannidae) and from 2 species of Rhinocryptidae. Cotylorhipis sureshi Jadhav & Shinde, 1981 is considered a species inquirenda. The very high diversity and endemism of the observed cestode fauna in the Valdivian temperate rain forests is noted.