 Because the cysticercoid form of a tapeworm species has been found in two out of three "C. stoneana" specimens in eastern Kansas, they also have to be eaten by mice, which are the tapeworm's host.The snow fly larvae likely take up these tapeworms via mouse feces.Tapeworm cysticercoids, possibly of the genus "Hymenolepis", have been found in the abdomens of Chionea stoneana.