Rev 11/04/2024
Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Anguinidae
Zeatylenchus Zhao, Davies, Alexander & Riley, 2013
Type species of the genus: Zeatylenchus pittosporum Zhao, Davies, Alexander & Riley, 2013
The genus name does not imply an affiliation with plants of the genus Zea but rather to the country of the type locality, New Zealannd.
Zeatylenchus differs from Ditylenchus in having a shorter female body length (0.45-0.65 vs 0.9-2.2 mm), adult lip region (offset and low vs continuous and high), tail terminus (terminus arcuate, offset on dorsal side, spicate vs pointed to mucronate), postvulval uterine sac length (1.0-1.5 times vs more than 3 times longer than vulval body diam.), plant symptoms induced (brown or yellow chlorotic spots vs swellings and deformations in aerial parts of plant).
Zeatylenchus differs from Litylenchus in tail terminus (terminus arcuate, offset on dorsal side, spicate vs bluntly rounded or pointed, sometimes with mucro) and bursa length (adanal vs peloderan) (Subbotin and Ryss, 2024)
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(Zhao et al., 2013)
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Recovered from the leaves of Pittosporum tenuifolium fron the North Island of New Zealand.
Distributed in temperate and tropical regions.
Parasites of leaves of higher plants, causing brown or yellow chlorotic spots. Infective stages are juveniles and adult females.
No data about associations with insects and fungi.
Feeding endoparasitically in the mesophyll of leaves without forming galls.
Nematodes did not form galls in the leaves (Zhao et al., 2013).
Has only been recovered from leaf tissue and has not been found in soil under the host plant.
Non-specific brown ot yellow chlorotic spots on the leves of Pittosporum (Zhao et al., 2013).
Subbotin, S.A. and Ryss, A.Y. 2024. Revision of the genus Ditylenchus Filipjev, 1936: Ditylenchoides gen. n. and Paraditylenchus gen. n. (Nematoda: Anguinoidea). Russian Journal of Nematology, 32: 91-102
Zhao, Z.Q., Davies, K.A., Alexander, B.J.R., Riley, I.T. 2013. Zeatylenchus pittosporum gen. n. , sp. n. (Tylenchida: Anguinata), from leaves of Pittosporum tenuifolium (Pittosporaceae) in New Zealand. Nematology 15:197-212.