plasmodium matutinum plasmodium matutinum plasmodium matutinum is a parasite of the genus plasmodium subgenus haemamoeba. plasmodium matutinum scientific classification domain: eukaryota clade: diaphoretickes clade: tsar clade: sar clade: alveolata phylum: apicomplexa class: aconoidasida order: haemospororida family: plasmodiidae genus: plasmodium species: p. matutinum binomial name plasmodium matutinumhuff, 1937 like all plasmodium species p. matutinum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. the vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds. taxonomy the parasite was first described by huff in 1937. for some time this species was thought to be a subspecies of plasmodium relictum. hosts this species infects the thrush nightingale (luscinia luscinia).