ProProleptonchus sinensis

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Proleptonchus sinensis Li, Baniyamuddin, Ahmad &Wu, 2008

Morphology and Anatomy:

Body length 1.4-1.7 mm body;
Lip region low, offset by depression; lips rounded, amalgamated.
Amphids wide cup-shaped fovea; aperture about 0.5â€“ 0.7 lip region width.
odontostyle typical of the genus, slender, attenuated, 0.8 lip-region-width long. Guiding ring at 0.70-0.81 lip-region-width from anterior.
odontophore arcuate with simple base, 1.5 odontostyle length.
Pharynx with slender, weakly muscular anterior part separated from expanded part by deep constriction; pharyngeal bulb occupying about 19â€“20% of total neck length.
Cardia rounded, conoid, about one-third of corresponding body width long.
tail short conoid with thick cuticle at terminus

.	Female: pseudo monodelphic prodelphic, anterior branch normal, posterior branch with rudiments of uterus and oviduct Ref:: :Li et al., 2008
Proleptonchus sinensis (A) Entire female; (B) entire male; (C) anterior region; (D) anterior end showing amphid; (E) pharyngeal region; (F) expanded part of pharynx; (G) female genital branch; (H) female posterior end; (I) male posterior region. Drawings from Li et al., 2008
Males: spicules slender and slightly arcuate adanal pair of supplements and 4 ventromedian.

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

Distribution:

Proleptonchus sinensisis described from China, Ailao Mountains, Yunnan Province.

Feeding:

Classified as hyphal feeding (Yeates et al., 1993)

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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References:

Li, Y., Baniyamuddin, M., Ahmad, W. and Wu, J. 2008. Four new and four known species of Tylencholaimoidea (Dorylaimida: Nematoda) from China. J. Natural History 42:1991-2010

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R. G. M. De Goede, D. W. Freckman, and S. S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—An outline for soil ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: September 20, 2024.

Proleptonchus sinensis

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris. Revised: September 20, 2024.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: September 20, 2024.