Potensaphelenchus

 

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Classification:

     Chromadorea
       Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Parasitaphelenchinae

Potensaphelenchus Gu, Liu, Abolafia & Pedram, 2021

Type and only species: P. stammeri (Korner, 1954) Gu, Liu, Abolafia & Pedram, 2021

= Aphelenchoides stammeri Korner, 1953

= Ektaphelenchus stammeri (Korner, 1953) J.B. Goodey, 1960

= Seinura lii Huang and Ye, 2006

= Aphelenchoides lii (Huang and Ye, 2006) Kanzaki, Ekino & Masuya, 2019

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Female:

Male:

The genus name is derived from the strong or potent appearance of the feeding structures of the nematode.

Ref: Gu et al., 2021


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Distribution:

Described from packaging wood imported into China from Spain.  Also reported from declining Pinus massoniana in China and from Pinus nigra in Turkey (Dayi et al., 2019)

As Aphelenchoides stammeri, the type species was originally isolated from Spondylis buprestoides and wood of damaged pine and spruce trees (Gu et al., 2021)..

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Feeding:

Can be cultured on fungus.

Morphologically, in having a well-sclerotized stylet with wide lumen,.the new genus resembles some predatory Aphelenchoididae: Seinura spp. and the Ektaphelenchinae genera, Ektaphelenchus, Ektaphelenchoides and Devibursaphelenchus (Gu et al., 2021)

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Hosts:

 

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

 

 

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References:

Dayi, M., Uludamar, E.B.K., Akbulut, S., Elekcioglu, L.H. 2019. First record of Aphelenchoides stammeri (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) from Turkey. J. Nematology 51: DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2019-070

Gu, J., L. Liu, J. Abolafia, and M. Pedram. 2021. A revision of the taxonomy of Aphelenchoides stammeri Korner, 1954 (Rhabditida: Aphelenchoididae) and proposal for a new genus. Nematology 23:215-228.

Korner, H. 1954. Die Nematoden fauna des vergehenden Holzes und ihre Beziehungen zu den Insekten. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Ekologie und Geographie der Tiere 82, 245-353.

 

 
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