Diplogastrellus

 

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Classification:

Chromadorea
Chromadoria
Rhabditina
            Diplogastroidea
Diplogastridae
        Diplogastrellus Paramonov, 1952
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    •       Type species of the genus: Diplogastrellus gracilis (Butschli, 1876) Paramonov, 1952

        Synonyms:

    Metadiplogaster Weingartner, 1955

    Note: Andrassy (2005) suggested that Diplogastrellus should be regarded as a junior synonym of Acrostichus, but that has not been broadly accepted.

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    Morphology and Anatomy:

     

    		 Females:
    •   Monodelphic, prodelphic, ovary reflexed

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    Diplogastrellus metamasius  A: Male; B: Female; C: Stoma (female, left lateral view); D: Stoma (female, ventral view); E: Body surface (adult female); F: Anterior part of adult female.
    Drawings from Kanzaki et al., 2008

    Males:

    • Monorchic

       
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    Distribution:

    Diplogastrellus spp. are commonly found on decaying organic matter, including vertebrate dung, decaying vegetation and associated with insects feeding on these substrates, for example, sugarcane weevils (Burdine et al., 2024).. 

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    Feeding:

    Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Diplogastrellus

    Parasites of insects and probably also bacterial feeding

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    Biology and Ecology:

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    Life Cycle:

    Dauer juveniles persist in abdominal cuticular folds of host insects

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    Ecosystem Functions and Services:

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    Management:

     
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    References:

    Andrassy, I. 2005. Free-living nemaodes of Humgary, 1.  Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 518p

    Butschli, O. 1876. Untersuchungen uber freilebende Nematoden und die Gattung Chaetonotus. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 26: 363-413.

    Kanzaki, N., Giblin-Davis, R.M.,. Zeng, Y., Ye, W., Center, B.J. 2008. Diplogastrellus metamasius n. sp. (Rhabditida: Diplogastridae) isolated from Metamasius hemipterus (L.) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae) in southern Florida and Costa Rica. Nematology 10:853-868.

    Paraminov, A.A. 1952. [Ecological classification of plant nematodes.] Trudy Gelminthologicheskoi Laboratorii, Akademia Nauk SSSR (Moskva) 6:338-369

     
    Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
    Revised: June 03, 2025.