Ficotylus

  

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Classification:

      Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Anguinidae

          Ficotylus Davies, Ye, Giblin-Davis & Thomas, 2009

Type species of the genus Ficotylus congestae Davies, Ye, Giblin-Davis & Thomas, 2009

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Slender nematodes, long stylets - about 4x length of body diameter at stylet knobs.
Mo median bulb. Esophageal glands overlapping intestine for a short distance, not enclosed in a terminal bulb.
Female monovarial with post-vulval sac.
Tail elongate conoid.
Male with bursa and hook-shaped spicules.

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

Recorded from the figs (sycones or syconia) of Ficus spp. in Australia and Costa Rica (Davies et al., 2009; Giblin-Davis, et al., 2014)..

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

 May feed ectoparasitically on the bracts of sycones.

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Hosts:
For an extensive host range list for this genus, click
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Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click 
 Sycones (figs) are closed inflorescences and nematodes of the genus Ficotylus probably have phoretic relationships with fig wasps and transferred between trees during pollination.
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Damage:

 

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Management:

 

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References:

Davies, K., Ye, W., Giblin-Davis, T.M. and Thomas, K. 2009  Ficotylus congestae gen. n., sp. n.(Anguinata), from Ficus congesta (Moraceae) sycones in Australia. Nematology 11: 63-75.

Giblin-Davis, R.M., Kanzaki, N. Davies, K.A., Ye, W., Zeng, Y., Center, B.J., Esquivel, A. and Powers, T.O. 2014. Ficotylus laselvae n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Anguinidae) associated with Ficus colubrinae in Costa Rica. Nematology 16:1139-1151.

 

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Revised: September 12, 2023.