Sheraphelenchus heterophallus

Sheraphelenchus heterophallus	Contents	Rev 12/17/2024
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Classification:

       Chromadorea
       Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Aphelenchoidinae

Sheraphelenchus heterophallus (Steiner, 1934) Kanzaki, 2021

Synonyms

Aphelenchoides heterophallus Steiner, 1934

Parasitaphelenchus heterophallus (Steiner, 1934) Ruhm, 1956

This species was originally described as Aphelenchoides heterophallus from sugar cane infected by fungi in Jamaica (Steiner, 1934) and was transferred to Parasitaphelenchus Fuchs, 1929 by RÃ¼hm (1956), mostly because of its male tail characters (Kanzaki, 2021).

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

Insect associates

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Hosts:

The following are listed as hosts in various literature sources:

Saccharum officinarum L.

Sugar Cane

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Life Cycle:

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Damage:

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Management:

Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:

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References:

Goodey, J. B., M. T. Franklin, and D. J. Hooper. 1965. T. Goodey's: The Nematode Parasites of Plants Catalogued Under Their Hosts. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, Bucks, England. Third Edition\

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

Ruhm, W. 1956. Die Nematoden der Ipiden. Parasitologische SchriftenReihe 6: 1-435.

Steiner, G. 1934. A new species of the nematode genus Aphelenchoides living in sugar cane. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 24: 141-143.