Diplogastrellus

Diplogastrellus	Contents	Rev: 03/04/2025
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Classification:

Chromadorea: Chromadoria; Rhabditina
Diplogastroidea: Diplogastridae

Diplogastrellus Paramonov, 1952
Type species of the genus: Diplogastrellus gracilis (Butschli, 1876) Paramonov, 1952

Synonyms:

Metadiplogaster Weingartner, 1955

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:

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Feeding:

Parasites of insects and probably also bacterial feeding

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Life Cycle:

Dauer juveniles persist in abdominal cuticular folds of host insects

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References:

Butschli, O. 1876. Untersuchungen ï¿½ber freilebende Nematoden und die Gattung Chaetonotus. Zeitschrift fï¿½r 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