Potensaphelenchus stammeri

 

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Classification:

       Tylenchida
       Aphelenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Parasitaphelenchinae

            Potensaphelenchus stammeri 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

 

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

 

 
 
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Distribution:

Described from packaging wood imported into China from Spain.  Also reported from declining Pinus massoniana in China.

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-sclerotised stylet with wide lumen,.P. stammeri resembles tsome predatory Aphelenchoididae: Seinura spp. and the Ektaphelenchinae genera, Ektaphelenchus, Ektaphelenchoides and Devibursaphelenchus (Gu et al., 2021)

 

 

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

 

 

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References:

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 Jahrbcher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Ekologie und Geographie der Tiere 82, 245-353.

 

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