Table 18 Key to the Haemoproteus species of Musophagiformes birds

1 (2)

Fully grown gametocytes are halteridial; they only slightly enclose nuclei of infected erythrocytes with their ends (Fig. 19a, b). Both ends of advanced gametocytes usually are more or less narrowed in comparison to the widths of the gametocytes (Fig. 19a, b). One or both ends of advanced gametocytes often are pointed (Fig. 19a, b)

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H. montezi (Fig. 19a, b) [3, 114]

2 (1)

Fully grown gametocytes are halteridial; they only slightly enclose nuclei of infected erythrocytes with their ends (Fig. 19c). Both ends of advanced gametocytes usually are not narrowed in comparison to the widths of the gametocytes (Fig. 19c). Both ends of advanced gametocytes usually are approximately similarly rounded (Fig. 19c)

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H. minchini (Fig. 19c) [115]