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The first host record among Staphylinidae: Coleoptera, was established for an intracellular microsporidian, which was identified as a Nosematid. It lives preferentially in the accessory pigment cells and retinula cells of the compound eye of Creophilus erythrocephalus and differs from all forms described to date in possessing a coiled filament at the trophic amoeboid phase. An unidentified structure, possibly an intracellular parasite of plant origin, was found in one retinula cell.
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Meyer-Rochow, V.B. An intracellular microsporidian parasite from the compound eye of Creophilus erythrocephalus (staphylinidae: Coleoptera). Z. Parasitenk. 38, 174–182 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329029
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