Revision of the genus Soricinia Spassky & Spasskaja, 1954 (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Hymenolepididae) with redescriptions of three species, an amended generic diagnosis and an identification key to species

Redescriptions of three species of Soricinia Spassky & Spasskaja, 1954 are provided. The type-species of the genus, Soricinia soricis (Baer, 1925), is redescribed on the basis of the holotype from the Alpine shrew Sorex alpinus Schinz collected in Salève Mountain, France. Since the type-material of Soricinia infirma (Żarnowski, 1955) has apparently been lost, a neotype from the type-host Sorex araneus L. and from a region reasonably close to the type-locality (Poltavska Oblast’ in the Ukraine), is designated. The type-material of Soricinia quarta (Karpenko, 1983) Karpenko, 1999 from Sorex isodon Turov in Khabarovsk Kray (Russia) is redescribed. A taxonomic revision and an overview of the geographical distribution of species of the genus Soricinia are presented. An amended generic diagnosis and a key to identification of Soricinia spp. are also presented.