Allantocystis

Allantocystis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Conoidasida
Order: Eugregarinorida
Family:
Genus:
Species:
A. dasyhelei
Binomial name
Allantocystis dasyhelei
Keilin, 1920

Allantocystis is a genus in the family Allantocystidae.[1] Its only species is Allantocystis dasyhelei, a gregarine parasite of the larval biting midge Dasyhelea obscura.[2]

  1. ^ Levine ND (1977). "Checklist of the species of the aseptate gregarine families Aikinetocystidae, Diplocystidae, Allantocystidae, Schaudinnellidae, Ganymedidae and Enterocystidae". J Invert Path. 29 (2): 175–181. Bibcode:1977JInvP..29..175L. doi:10.1016/0022-2011(77)90191-4.
  2. ^ Keilin D (March 1920). "On two new Gregarines, Allantocystis dasyhelei N.G., N.Sp., and Dendrorhynchus systeni N.G., N.Sp., parasitic in the alimentary canal of the dipterous larvae, Dasyhelea obscura Winn. and Systenus Sp". Parasitology. 12 (3): 154–158. doi:10.1017/s0031182000014104.