A New Gregarine Genus Recovered From Field Crickets. The gregarine at right was recovered from the intestines of Gryllus rubrens , a field cricket common throughout much of North America. Although we believe that this gregarine may be wide-spread and common through common field crickets in North America its distribution in Nebraska appears to be limited to the Sandhills Region. Our taxonomic analysis is not yet complete, but we believe that this is species represents a new genus. The picture at right actually shows two gregarines in association.
Associations are sexual mating pairs of gregarines.
A New Species of Nubenocephalus Taken from the common civile bluet damselfly, Enallagma civile , these specimens are clearly distinguished as members of the genus Nubenocephalus by the broadly lobed, sucker-like holdfasts at their anterior end. Although the taxonomic analysis on this parasite is not yet complete, it appears to be a second species in the monotypic New World genus Nubenocephalus .