Meloidodera mexicana

  

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Classification:

      Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Meloidoderinae


           Meloidodera mexicana Cid del Prado, 1991
    Synonyms:
      None.

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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:  I. Cid del Prado 

 

Second-stage juveniles:

 

 Males:

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

  
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Distribution:

 

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

Nurse cell system is a uninucleate giant cell.

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

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Hosts:

For an extensive host range list for this species, click

 

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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

 

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Damage:

 

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Management:

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

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

 

 

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References:

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

 

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: February 01, 2021.