Rev 07/27/2023
Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Heteroderidae Nacobboderinae
Meloinema silvicolum Kleynhans, 1988
Synonyms:
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Females:
Juveniles:
Ref: Kleynhans, 1988
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Described from white pear (Apodytes dimidiata) in an evergreen forest on the southern Cape coast of South Africa.
Mature female feeds as a semiendoparasite with the swollen posterior part on the outside of the root and the long vermiform anterior embedded deep into root tissue.
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Eggs deposited in a gelatinous matrix secreted by female.
Mature males were found in the gelatinous matrix in whiche eggs are deposited suggesting the possibility of attraction of males to females and of sexual reprodiction.
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Kleynhans, K.P.N. 1988. Meloinema silvicolum sp. nov.(Nemata: Heteroderidae) from an indigenous forest in the southern Cape. Phytophylactica 20:257-261.