Ficophagus benjamina

 

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Classification Hosts
Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

       Tylenchida
       Aphelenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Aphelenchoidinae

            Ficophagus benjamina (Bartholomaeus, Davies, Ye & Giblin-Davis, 2012), Davies et al., 2015

Synonyms:

Schistonchus benjamina Bartholomaeus, Davies, Ye & Giblin-Davis, 2012

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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:

Found in sycones of Ficus benjamina.  The pre-reproductive female is presumed to be moved by the pollinating wasp of F. benjamina, Euspristina koninsberegeri (Batholomaeus et al., 2012).

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

Feeds, grows and reproduces within syconia of Ficus benjamina.

 

 

 

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Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

 

 

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Management:

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

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References:

Bartholomaeus, F., Davies, K.A., Ye, W. and Giblin-Davis, R.M. 2012. Schistonchus (Aphelenchoididae) from Ficus benjamini in Australia, with description of S. benjamiina sp.n. Nematology 13:1005-1013.

Davies, K.A., Ye, W., Kanzaki, N., Bartholomaeus, F., Zeng, Y. & Giblin-Davis, R.M. (2015). A review of the taxonomy, phylogeny, distribution and co-evolution of Schistonchus Cobb, 1927 with proposal of Ficophagus n. gen. and Martininema n. gen. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae). Nematology 17, 761- 829. DOI: 10.1163/15685411-00002907

Zheng, Y., Huang, J., Zhang, D., Zeng, W., Shi, R., Zhang, Y., Peng, Y., Ye, W., Giblin-Davis, R.M. 2019. Ficophagus auriculatae n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae), an associate of the Ficus auriculata-complex in China. Nematology 21:497-508.

 

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