Rev 06/14/2022
Bitylenchus ventrosignatus (Tobs Jimenez, 1969) Siddiqi, 1986
Synonyms:
Tylenchorhynchus ventrosignatus Geraert, 2011
Tylenchorhynchus ventrosignatus Tobar Jimenez, 1969
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Female
Male
Ref: Shokoohi, 2021
Originally described from Spain, current description from specimens collected in the rhizosphaere of grasses in Botswana (Shokoohi, 2021).
Migratory ectoparasite
Found in rhizosphere of grasses in Botswana.
Amphimictic based on abundance of males and sperm in spermatheca.
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Andrassy, I. 2007. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary II. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 496p.
Geraert, E. 2011. The Dolichodoridae of the world, identification of the family Dolichodoridae (Nematoda: Tylenchida), Academia Press, Ghent, p. 520
Handoo, Z. A., Palomares-Rius, J. E., CantalapiedraNavarrete, C., Liébanas, G., Subbotin, S. A. and Castillo, P. 2014. Integrative taxonomy of the stunt nematodes of the genera Bitylenchus and Tylenchorhynchus (Nematoda, Telotylenchidae) with description of two new species and a molecular phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:231–64, available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj12175
Hosseinvand, M., Eskandari, A., Ganjkhanloo, S., Ghaderi, R., Castillo, P. and Palomares-Rius, J. E. 2020. Taxonomical considerations and molecular phylogeny of the closely related genera Bitylenchus, Sauertylenchus and Tylenchorhynchus (Nematoda: Telotylenchinae), with one new and four known species from Iran. Journal of Helminthology 94:1-25. doi. org/10.1017/S0022149X20000784.
Shokoohi, E. 2021. First report of Bitylenchus ventrosignatus (Tobar Jimï‚Žnez, 1969) Siddiqi, 1986 associated with wild grass in Botswana. J. Nematology 53: | DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2021-037
Siddiqi, M. R. 1986. Tylenchida: parasites of plants and insects, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, London, p. 645
Tobar Jiménez, A. 1969. Descripción del Tylenchorhynchus ventrosignatus sp. nov. (Nematoda: Tylenchida). Revista Ibérica de Parasitologia 29: 399–403.