Rev 09/06/2022
Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Heteroderidae Meloidogyninae
Meloidogyne spartinae (Rau & Fassuliotis, 1965) Whitehead, 1968
Hypsoperine spartinae (Rau & Fassuliotis, 1965)
Hypsoperine (Spartonema) spartinae (Rau & Fassuliotis, 1965)
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
First observed on cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) in Florida, USA, and described origiinally as Hypsosperine spartinae by Rau and Fassuliotis (1965) from specimens collected on S. alterniflora near the farm of the US Vegetable Breeding Laboratory (where Fassuliotis was stationed), located near Charleston, South Carolina, USA (Subbotin et al., 2021).
C-rated pests in California.
Feeding site establishment and development typical of genus.
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Rau, G.J. and Fassuliotis, G. 1965. Hypsoperine spartinae sp.n., a gall-forming nematode on the roots of smooth cordgrass. Proc. Helmithol. Soc. Wash. 32:159-162.
Subbotin, S.A., Palomares-Rius, J.E., Castillo, P. 2021. Systematics of Root-knot Nematodes (Nematoda: Meloidoginidae). . Nematology Monograpshs and Perspectives Vol 14. (D.J. Hunt and R.J. Perry, eds).
Whitehead, A.G. 1968. Taxonomy of Meloidogyne (Heteroderidae) with descriptions of four new species Trans. Zool. Soc. London 31;263-401.