Peltomyces periplanetae (Léger)
Synonymy.—Peltomyces blattellae. Sprague (1940a) synonymizes Peltomyces periplanetae, with Coelosporidium periplanetae.
Natural hosts.—Blatta orientalis, France (Debaisieux, 1927).
Blattella germanica, France (Léger, 1909; Debaisieux, 1927).
The organism inhabits the malpighian tubules of cockroaches. Léger and Debaisieux concluded that their organism was a mycetozoan, but they may have erred in synonymizing Plistophora periplanetae with the organism they studied. Debaisieux found intracellular stages of Peltomyces periplanetae that have not been found in Plistophora periplanetae or Coelosporidium periplanetae.
Order AMOEBINA
Family AMOEBIDAE