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Described from leaf and stem galls on capeweed (Arctotheca calendula) in the arboretum of the Waite Institute in South Australia.
Ectoparasite on cotyledons and emerging leaves, endoparsites in stem and leaf galls.
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Juveniles emerge from galls at the start of the fall rainy seson and move between the cotyledons of the emerging host tissues.. They penetrate the first true leaves of the capeweed seedlings and galls are observed on the surface of the leaves after about 10 days. The galls contain around 5 adults, both males and females. The firs eggs appear after about 5 weeks and the first juveniles 2 months after penetration of the infective juveniles. Young adults are present about 3 weeks later. Several generations are completed in the gall. The nematode survives the dry summeras third-stage juveniles in the dry galls. (Chit and Fisher, 1975).
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Chit, W. and Fisher, J.M. 1975. Mesoanguina mobilis n. sp., a parsite mof capeweed (Arctotheca calendula). Nematologica 21:53-61.
Chizhov, V.N. & Subbotin, S.A. 1985. [Revision of the nematode from the subfamily Anguininae (Nematoda, Tylenchida) on the basis of their biological characteristics]. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 64: 1476- 1486 (in Russian).