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Spilotylenchus

 

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Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Rhabditida

Tylenchina/Hexatylina

Sphaerularioidea

 Parasitylenchidae (Alsoa assignesd to family Allantonematidae by some authors)

 

       Spilotylenchus Slobodyanyuk, 1997

Type species of the genus: Spilotylenchus pawlowskyi (Kurochkin, 1960), Slobodyanyuk, 1997

    Synonyms (of type species):

Heteroylenchus pawlowskyi Kurochkin, 1960

Psyllotylenchus pawlowskyi (Kurochkin, 1960), Poinar & Nelson, 1973

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Males:  



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Distribution:

:Most records have been from Russia and northern Europe. Typ[e species described from fleas parasitic on gerbils in Kazakhstan and Russia. One species has been described from fleas in California, USA (Poinar and Nelson, 1973).

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Feeding:

Nematode parasites of fleas

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Life Cycle:

The life cycle of this nematode is characterized by an alternation, in the coelom of the host flea, of heterosexual and parthenogenetic generations. At the type locality, in Russia, 49% of the Coptopsylla lamellifer, the type host, were parasitized by S. pawlowskyi (Slobodyanyuk, 1997)

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References:

Kurochkin, Y.V. 1960. [The nematode Heterotylenchus pawlowskyi sp. n., castrating flea-vectors of plague]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 135: 1281-1284.

 Litvinova, E.A. 1995. Description of a new species of the genus Spilotylenchus (Nematoda, Tylenchida) a parasite of the flea Neopsylla bidentatiformis (Insecta, Siphonaptera). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 74:39-43.

Poinar, G.O.Jr. and Nelson, B .C. 1973. Psyllotylenchus vivipams n. gen. n. sp. (Nematoda: Tylenchida: Nantonematidae) parasitizing fleas (Siphonaptera) in California. Journal of Medical Entomology 10: 349-354.

Slobodyanyuk, O.V. 1997. Revision of the species Psyllotylenchus pawlowskyi (Kurochkin, 1960) Poinar & Nelson, 1973. I. Redescript ion of Spilotylenchus pawlowskyi (sensu stricto) comb. n. (Tylenchida: Allantonematidae) . Russian J. Nematology 5:103-112.

 

 

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Revised: May 16, 2024.