Rev 08/30/2022
a coffee root-knot nematode
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Second-stage juvenile
Described from El Salvador. Also reported in Brazil, Asia and Africa.
Reported on coffee in El Salvador (Carneiro et al., 2005). One of at least 17 species of Meloidogyne reported on coffee.
Sedentary endoparasite.
Feeding site establishment and development typical of genus.
Type Host: coffee (Coffea arabica).
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Meloidogyne izalcoensis induces round galls in coffee roots with egg masses outside the galls, in cotrast to M. exigua which induces round galls with egg masses within the galls (Humphreys-Pereira et al., 2014).
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Carneiro, R. M.; Almeida, M. R. A.; Gomes, A. C. M.; Hernandez, A 2005. Meloidogyne izalcoensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae), a root-knot nematode parasitising coffee in El Salvador. Nematology 7:819-832.
Humphreys-Pereira, D.A., Flores-Chavez, L., Gomez, M., Salazar, L. Gomez-Alpizar, L.E., Elling, A.A. 2014. Meloidogyne lopezi n.sp. (Nematode: Meloidogynidae, a new root-knot nematode�.. Nematology 16:643-661.