New cestode species of the genus Neoskrjabinolepis Spassky, 1947 (Cyclophyllidea: Hymenolepididae) from the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus L.) in Europe

Neoskrjabinolepis ( Neoskrjabinolepis ) yanchevi n. sp. is described from common shrews Sorex araneus L. (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Pirin Mts., Bulgaria (type-locality) and Russia (Arkhangelskaya Oblast’). The new species is characterised by ten rostellar hooks 37–40 μm long and possessing claw-like blades with crooked middle parts and well-developed epiphyseal thickenings of handles; a whip-shaped cirrus, 80–100 μm long, consisting of basal region with numerous small, rosethorn-shaped spines, and middle and distal regions armed with fine, needle-shaped spines; vagina provided with sphincter close to its orifice, with copulatory and conductive part not clearly distinct from one another; 40–50 eggs per gravid uterus. The species is differentiated from the remaining 4 species of the nominotypical subgenus of the genus Neoskrjabinolepis , which are parasites of the Palaearctic shrews of the genus Sorex .