Ficotylus laselvae

Ficotylus laselvae	Contents	Rev 07/25/2022
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Classification:

Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea
Anguinidae
Ficotylus laselvae Giblin-Davis, Kanzaki, Ye, Zeng, Esquivel & Powers, 2014.
Synonyms:

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Slender nematodes, short stylets - about 1x length of body diameter at stylet knobs.
Head low and flattened, not offset from body contour.
Cuticle finely striated.
Median bulb a swelling in the seophagus without valves.
Esophageal glands overlapping intestine for a short distance.
DEGO close to base of stylet.
Female monovarial with post-vulval sac.
Tail elongate conoid with sharp tip.
Male with leptoderan bursa; spicules curved but not hook-shaped; gubernaculum short.

(Giblin-Davis, et al., 2014)

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

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Distribution:

Recorded from the figs (sycones or syconia) of Ficus colubrinae at La Selva, Costa Rica (Giblin-Davis, et al., 2014).

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Economic Importance:

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Feeding:

Possibly feeding endoparasitically in the bracts of sycones.

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Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

Ficotylus laselvae has only been recovered from sycones and has not been found in soil under the host plant.

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Sycones (figs) are closed inflorescences and nematodes of the genus Ficotylus probably have phoretic relationships with fig wasps and transferred between trees during pollination.