Talk:Mermithidae

Mermis or nematomorph?
According to Dr. John Capinera, chair of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, this image is of a horsehair worm (Nematomorpha: Class Gordioidea) and not a species in Nematoda, order Mermithida, family Mermithidae. Capinera is well published on grasshopper species in the U.S. and is currently writing a Featured Creatures publication on Mermis nigrescens Dujardin, 1842, which should be online in about a week.

He is also published on Mermis nigrescens:

Capinera JL. 1987. Observations on natural and experimental parasitism of insects by Mermis nigrescens Dujardin (Nematoda: Mermithidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 60: 159-162.

I am correcting the subclass from Enoplia to Dorylaimia. See "Talk" within Wikipedia article "Mermithida" for explanation.Ray Glock-Grueneich (talk) 16:11, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

He also wrote the Featured Creatures publication on horsehair works at.

Thomas R. Fasulo (talk) 16:58, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I added a link to the UF/IFAS publication which is now available. Thomas R. Fasulo (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

add another picture and/or video?
I dont really know the rules on taking things from the open internet, but here is a picture and a video of a worm inside a spider

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2007/12/15/mermithid-worm-parasitizes-spider/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5vUUtSWT4&list=UUAjxeq-3rEQbBqIKxLnq92Q&index=1 24.141.1.24 (talk) 01:20, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

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