Fungiotonchium

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
              Tylenchida
                 Tylenchina
          Sphaerularioidea
                       Iotonchiidae

Fungiotonchium Siddiqi, 1986

Type species of the genus: Fungiotonchium bifurcatum (Goodey, 1953) Siddiqi, 1986

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Fungiotonchium is distinguished from Iotonchium by presence vs absence of a vulval flap in the free-living entomoparasitic female and with cylindroid spicules with an extremely slender extension that ends in a spine or notch in the male.

Ref: Siddiqi, 2000. 

Female:  

  • Insect-parasitic and free-living forma
  • Monodelphic, prodelphic, no postvulval uterine sac
  • Vulval flap present
  • Tail elongate conoid to filiform
 

Males:  

  • Stylet degenerate
  • Cylindroid spicules with an extremely slender extension that ends in a spine or notch
  • Bursa envelopes tail.
  • Esophagus degenerate or absent

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Distribution:

 

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Feeding:

Infective females are parsites of insects; free-living females are fungivores abnd terrestrial.

 
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Life Cycle:

 
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Management:

 

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References:

Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Tylenchida: Parasites of plants and insects, 2nd ed. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.

Subbotin, S.A. 2014. Order Tylenchida Thorne, 1949. In Schmidt-Raesa, A. (ed). Handbook of Zoology: Gastroctricha, Cycloneurelia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter, Berlin

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R.G.M. de Goede, D.W.Freckman and S.S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families - an outline for ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331.

 

 

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Copyright  1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 14, 2023.