Meloidodera mexicana

Meloidodera mexicana	Contents	Rev 09/05/2023
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Classification:

      Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Meloidoderinae

Meloidodera mexicana Cid del Prado, 1991

Synonyms:
None.

Morphology and Anatomy:

Females:

Female does not form a cyst..
Body globose, spherical to pear-shaped with short neck and no terminal cone.

SEM female with insert of vulva region

Photographs by Ignacio Cid del Prado Vera

Second-stage juveniles:

Phasmid lens-like

Males:

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

Feeding:

Nurse cell system is a uninucleate giant cell.

Meloidodera mexicana giant cell in root of chile - photograph by I. Cid del Prado

Hosts:

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

References:

Cid del Prado, I. 1991. Description of Meloidodera mexicana n. sp.(Nemata: Heteroderinae) with key to species. Revue de Nematologie 14:537-542

Fuentes, C.C., Cid del Prado Vera, I. & Zavaleta-Mejia, E. (1997) Pathogenicity of Meloidodera mexicana to Capsicum annuum and evaluation of its host range. International Journal of Nematology, 7:174-177

Ghaderi, R. 2019. An outline on distribution and hosts of the cystoid nematodes of Ataloderinae Wouts, 1973 and Meloidoderinae Golden, 1971. Zootaxa 4664:: 339ï¿½350 https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/