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these developing stages and the Culex vector, it was concluded that P. dominicana
parasitized birds.
Another malarial parasite was discovered in the Dominican amber bat fly,
Enischnomyia stegosoma (Diptera: Streblidae) (Fig.  2.46) (Poinar and Brown
2012). Two ovoid oocysts that contained short, stubby sporozoites of the malarial
Fig. 2.40 Trypomastigote
stages (arrow) of
trypanosomes in the
hindgut lumen of
Paleotriatoma metaxytaxa.
Scale bar = 30 μm
Fig. 2.41 A biting midge,
Protoculicoides sp., in
Burmese amber. Scale
bar = 400 μm
2 Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa