Xiphinema hangzhouense

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimida Dorylaimina Dorylaimoidea Longidoridae Xiphineminae: Xiphinema hangzhouense Cai, Maria, Barsalote, Subbotin & Zheng, 2018

Morphology and Anatomy:

Female:

Body cylindrical, narrowing towards anterior and tail region
Cuticle smooth with fine transverse striations in tail region.
Lip region rounded-hemispherical, offset from body contour by a shallow depression.
Amphids stirrup-shaped with wide slit-like aperture, slightly narrower than lip diam.
Odontostyle robust, 10-12 lip region diam. long.
Odontophore with well-developed basal flanges.
Guiding ring double.
Esophagus with a terminal bulb with three nuclei, one dorsal gland nucleus located at beginning of bulb and the other two subventrolateral nuclei near middle of bulb.
Esophago-intestinal valve conoid-oblong.
Female reproductive system monodelphic, opisthodelphic, devoid of anterior genital branch.
Gonad reflexed, vulva a transverse slit, vagina thick walled, directed slightly posteriorly.
Tail elongated, not filiform, with slight curvature to ventral side, tapering graduallywith a rounded to clavate terminus.

Male unknown.

Ref: Cai et al (2018)

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

Distribution:

Reportyed from Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, eastern China. From the rhizosphere of Magnolia grandiflora

Feeding:

Unknown, nut ususally species of this genus feed at root tips causing swelling, stunting, and destruction of tips.

Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Management:

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

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Cai, R., M. Maria, E.M. Barsalote, S.A. Subbotin and J. Zheng. 2018. Description of Xiphinema hangzhouense sp. n. (Nematoda: Longidoridae) from the rhizosphere of Magnolia grandiflora in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Nematology 20:67-80..