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Classification:

Tylenchida

 Tylenchina

  Tylenchoidea

             Tylenchidae 

              Tylenchinae 

               Ecphyadophorinae 

               

 Chilenchus Siddiqi, 2000

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Raski collected the type species of this genus in Chile and, with Geraert, described it as Lelenchus elegans Raski & Geraert, 1986.. Siddiqi (2000) considered that characteristics of the species differed from those of the genus Lelenchus and established the genus Chilenchus for this species, recognizing Chile as the source of the type specimen.  Consequently, the type and only species is Chilenchus elegans (Raski & Geraert, 1986) Siddiqi, 2000.

 

The genus is placed in the subfamily Ecphyadophorinae Skarbilovich, 1959 because of the dorso-ventrally flattened head, the very slender body and the elongate to sinuous amphidial slits (Geraert, 2008)..
  

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Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Chilenchus

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References:

Geraert, E. 2008. The Tylenchidae of the world. Identification of the family Tylenchidae (Nematoda). Ghent, Belgium, Academia Press.

Raski, D.J. and Geraert, E. 1985. New species of Lelenchus Andrassy, 1954 and Ecphyadophora de Man, 1921 (Nemata: Tylenchidae) from southern Chile. Nematologica 31: 244-265. 

Siddiqi, M.R. 2000. Tylenchida: parasites of plants and insects, 2nd edition. Wallingford, UK, CAB International

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: April 29, 2025.