Bursaphelenchus mucronatus

  

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Classification:

Chromadorea
Rhabditida
 Tylenchina
Aphelenchoidea
Aphelenchoididae
Bursaphelenchinae
Bursaphelenchinae
Bursaphelenchus mucronatus Mamiya & Enda, 1979
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Morphology and Anatomy:

  Female: .

Female tail has a mucron.
Male: Paired spicules with prominent disc expansions at distal end.

Anterior region

Female gonad with spermatheca and postuterine sac.

 

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

 Photographs of B. mucronatus provided by Dr. Paulo Vieira, University of Evora, Portugal
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Distribution:

Reported from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Greece, China and US.

Vectored by Monochamus alternatus in Japan.

Intercepted in June, 1990 in test shipments of logs from Siberia to California.

Occurs in the US (Dwinell, 1997)

Ref:. (Mamiya and Endo, 1979 - Nematologica).

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Economic Importance:

Q-rated pest in California Nematode Pest Rating System.

Recent concerns about plans to import raw lumber from Siberia to mills in California and Oregon - subjected to intensive review - a conflict of different interest groups.

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Feeding:

Nematodes spread through axial and radial resin canals of pine trees, feeding on epithelial cells.

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Hosts:

Pine.

 

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Life cycle similar to that of B. mucronatus.

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Damage:

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Management:

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

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References:

 
 
Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: November 19, 2019.