Sheraphelenchus

Sheraphelenchus	Contents	Rev 08/07/2023
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Classification:

       Tylenchida
       Aphelenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Aphelenchoidinae

Sheraphelenchus Nickle, 1970

Morphology and Anatomy:

Lip region slightly offset.
Stylet without knobs.
Esophageal glands short.

Female:

Monodelphic, prodelphic, without postuterine sac.
Female tail elongate, attenuated conically posterior to
vulva, sharply pointed at tip.

Male:

Spicules paired, apparently partially fused, slender with elongated apex and narrow rostrum.
Male tail spike-like, narrowing abruptly just posterior to spicules.
Three pairs of caudal papillae.
Caudal alae and gubernaculum absent.
Bionomics.--Mycophagous, insect associate.

Ref: Nickle, 1970

Sheraphelenchus is distinguished from other genera in the Aphelenchodinae by the well-developed stylet without basal knobs or swellings, vulva located at > 80% of body length and tail having a digitiform spike with a finely pointed terminus (Hunt, 1993). The genus is quite rare. Phylogenetic analysis suggests a close realtionship to Bursapehelenchus (Fang et al., 2015).

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Distribution:

Nematodes of the genus Sheraphelenchus have been described or isolated from nitidulid beetles and their typical habitats, i.e., rotten fruit and sap flow (Kanzaki, 2021).

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Feeding:

Probably fungal feeders with phoretic associattions with insects. Have been found in associated with decaying fruit and sap flow as substrates.

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References:

Fang, Y., Gu, J., Wang, X., Wang , J., Li, H. 2015. Description of Sheraphelenchus parabrevigulonis n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) in pine wood packaging from Italy and redescription of S. sucus in onion bulbs from South Korea, isolated at Ningbo, China. Nematology 17: 213-229.

Kanzaki, N. 2021. Nematode isolation from nitidulid beetles with proposal of Sheraphelenchus heterophallus n. comb. Nematology 23: 897-908

Nickle, W.R. 1970. A Taxonomic Review of the Genera of the Aphelenchoidea (Fuchs, 1937) Thorne, 1949 (Nematoda: Tylenchida) . J. Nematology 2:375-392.