Heterodera fengi

  

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Classification:

Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Heteroderinae

           Heterodera fengi Wang, Zhou, Ye, Zhang, Peng & Liao, 2013

A member of the Cyperi group of Heterodera spp.

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Morphology and Anatomy:

General Characteristics of the Cyperi Group of Heterodera

Cysts lemon-shaped or rounded
Ambifenestrate
Bullae absent or present
Underbridge bifurcate or absent
Vulval slit long
J2 incisures 3 or 4
Monocotyledonous hosts

(Handoo and Subbotin, 2018; Subbotin et al., 2010, Subbotin et al. 2023)

 

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Females:

  • Eggs packed in body and a large egg sac

 

  • Cysts:
    • Lemon-shaped with distinct vulval cone, variable in size.
    • Cuticle light brown to dark brown. Neck prominent,
    •  Cuticle with irregular zig-zag pattern.
    • Ambifenestrate.
    • Vulval slit long
    • Underbridge present, thicker in central part and bifurcate at ends.

Males:  

  • Bullae absent.

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Distribution:

Described from bamboo in Guangdong Province, China.


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Feeding:


      

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Hosts:

Hosts of the Cyperi group of Heterodera spp. are usually monocotyledonous plants. Bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens)
 
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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

 

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Management:

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References:

Handoo, Z.A., Subbotin, S.A. 2018. Taxonomy, identification and principal species. Chapter 15 in Perry, R.N. Moens, M., and Jones, J.T.(eds)  Cyst Nematodes. CAB International.

Subbotin, S,A., Mundo-Ocampo, M., Baldwin, J.G. 2010. Systematics of Cyst Nematodes (Nematode: Heteroderinae). Nematology Monographs and Perspectives Volume 8B, D.J. Hunt and R.N. Perry (eds) Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands 512p

Subbotin, S.A., Roubtsova, T.V., Bostock, R.M., Maafi, Z.T., Chizhov, V.N., Palomares-Rius, J.E., Pablo Castillo, P. 2023. DNA barcoding, phylogeny and phylogeography of the cyst nematode species of the Schachtii group from the genus Heterodera (Tylenchida: Heteroderidae). Nematology (in press).

Wang, H., Zhou, K., Ye, W., Zhang, H., Peng, D., Liao, J. 2013. Heterodera fengi n. sp.(Nematoda: Heteroderinae) from bamboo in Guangdong Province, China—a new cyst nematode in the Cyperi group. Zootaxa 3652:179-192.

 

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