Anguina danthoniae

     

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Classification:

      Tylenchida
      Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Anguinidae
          Anguininae

          Anguina danthoniae (Maggenti, Hart & Paxman, 1973) Brzeski, 1981

    Synonyms:

Cynipanguina danthoniae Maggenti, Hart & Paxman,1973

Subanguina danthoniae (Maggenti, Hart & Paxman, 1973) Andrassy, 1987

Described as Cynipanguina danthoniae by Maggenti, Hart and Paxman (1973) and synonymized with Anguina by Brzeski, 1981. Siddiqi (1986) considered Cynipanguina indistinguishable from Subanguina and synonymized it with that genus although the finger-like extension of the esophageal glandular region appears to be a distinctive feature.  Fortuner and Maggenti (1987) re-established Cynipanguina but Andrassy (2007) lists it as a synonym of Subanguina.

However, Cid del; Prado Vera et al (2018) accept the transfer of Cynipnguina to Anguina by Brzeski, 1981.

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Morphology and Anatomy:

      Median bulb with valve;  isthmus separated from the glandular bulb by a constriction;  intestine overlapping the end of the glandular bulb that
      forms a stem-like extension. 

    Oocytes in columns surrounding a central rachis;  columned uterus with four long rows of cells (about 14 cells per row).  Post-uterine sac present.

    Mature females swollen.  

    Testis without flexures, caudal alae
leptoderan, gubernaculum present              

      [Ref: Fortuner and Maggenti, Rev. Nematol. 10(2):163-176 (1987).]

   
Drawings from Maggenti et al., 1973. Note gall om leaf (G) 

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


           

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Distribution:

Spherical leaf galls  induced by Anguina-like nematodes on California oatgrass, Danthonia californica, were first reported by Weiss (1945) in California and Texas. Twenty years later Jensen et al. (1964) reported similar galls on D. californica from pasturelands near the Oregon coast. Similar material was collected by Maggenti et al. (1973) from the central California coast.

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

Above-ground parasites of higher plants. The adults are the cryptobiotic stage instead of one of the juvenile stages as in other anguinids.

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Hosts:

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Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

Anguina danthoniae galls
Galls stimulated by Anguina danthoniae on California Oatgrass (Danthonia californica Boland)
Photographs by Ignacio Cid del Prado Vera
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Management:

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

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References

Andrássy, I. 2007.  Free-living Nematodes of Hungary (Nematoda Errantia) Vol. II.  Hungarian Natural History Museum. Budapest. Hungary, 496 pp.

Brzeski, M.W. 1981. The genera of Anguinidae (Nematoda, Tylenchida). Revue de Nematologie 4: 23-34.

Cid del Prado Vera, I., Chizhov, V.N., Subbotin, S.A. 2018. Molecular characterisation of gall-forming nematodes, Mesoanguina amsinckiae and Anguina danthoniae (Anguinidae: Tylenchida) from California, USA . Russian Journal of Nematology 26:109-113.

Fortuner, R. and Maggenti, A.R. 1987. A reappraisal of Tylenchina (Nemata). 4. The family Anguinidae Nicoll, 1935 (1926). Revue Nernatol. 10: 163-176.

Maggenti, A.R.; Hart, W.H.; Paxman, G.A. 1973. A new genus and species of gall forming nematode from Danthonia californica, with a discussion of its life history. Nematologica 19: 491-497.

Siddiqi, M. R. (1986). Tylenchida parasites of plants and insects. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, U.K. 645 p.

 
Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: November 09, 2022.