Aphelenchoides hunti

Aphelenchoides hunti	Contents	Rev 11/19/2019
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	Morphology and Anatomy	Life Cycle
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Classification:

       Tylenchida
       Aphelenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Aphelenchoidinae

Aphelenchoides hunti Steiner, 1935

Morphology and Anatomy:

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Feeding:

Feeds well as a fungivore on Alternaria sp. (Steiner and Christie, 1939)

Hosts:

The following are listed as hosts in various literature sources (Goodey et al., 1965):

Ipomoea sp. L.	Morning Glory
Lilium tigrinum L.
Physalis aequata	Ground Cherry

For an extensive host range list for this species, click

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this species, click	If species level data are not available, click for genus level parameters

Management:

Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:

For plants reported to have some level of resistance to this species, click

Goodey, J. B., M. T. Franklin, and D. J. Hooper. 1965. T. Goodey's: The Nematode Parasites of Plants Catalogued Under Their Hosts. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, Bucks, England. Third Edition

Steiner, G. and Christie, J.R. 1939. Nematodes observed on diseased rhizomes of ginger from Peru. Proceedings Helm. Soc. Washington 6:26-29.