Meloinema silvicolum

  

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Classification:

Chromadorea
       Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Nacobboderinae

           Meloinema silvicolum Kleynhans, 1988

Synonyms:
    

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Females:

  • Mature body a soft, white spherical posterior region on the outside of a root and vermiform anterior embedded in root.
  • Short conoid tail section protruding from sperical portion.
  • Gonads paired

Juveniles:

  • Lateral field with four lines. 
  • Head continuous with body contour

Ref: Kleynhans, 1988
Males:  
  • Long, vermiform.
  • Body twisted in posterior region
  • Elevated "fleshy" ridges extend from anterior of cloaca to tail tip. (Note that absence of a bursa is considered charcateristic of the genus)
  • Tail broadly rounded

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


Described from white pear (Apodytes dimidiata) in an evergreen forest on the southern Cape coast of South Africa.


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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

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.
      

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Hosts:


 
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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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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.

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Damage:

 

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Management:

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

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References:

Kleynhans, K.P.N. 1988. Meloinema silvicolum sp. nov.(Nemata: Heteroderidae) from an indigenous forest in the southern Cape. Phytophylactica 20:257-261.

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