Description and Identification of Four Species of Plant-parasitic Nematodes Associated with Forage Legumes

Abstract

Four species of plant parasitic nematodes were present in soil samples planted with forage legumes at Alachua County, Florida, USA. The detected species Belonolaimus longicaudatus, Criconemella ornate, Hoplolaimus galeatus, and Paratrichodorus minor were described in the present study. They belong to orders Rhabditida (Belonolaimus longicaudatus, Criconemella ornate, and Hoplolaimus galeatus) and Triplonchida (Paratrichodorus minor) and to taxonomical families Dolichodoridae (Belonolaimus longicaudatus), Hoplolaimidae (Hoplolaimus galeatus) Criconematidae (Criconemella ornate), and Trichodoridae (Paratrichodorus minor). The identification of the present specimens was based on the classical taxonomy, following morphological and morphometrical characters in the species specific identification keys.

First Report of Mesocriconema sphaerocephalum (Taylor, 1936) Loof, 1989 Associated with Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum) in Egypt

“…In Morocco; Zea mays L. in Kenya; Brassica oleracea L., Allium porrum L. and Lactuca sativa L. in Madagascar (Luc, 1970); coffee plantations in El Salvador (Raski & Golden, 1965); apricot in USA (Mckenry et al, 1990); peach and apple in Spain (Escuer & Palomo, 1991); vineyards in Italy (Coiro et al, 1991); avocado, mango and tamarind in Spain (Castillo & Gómez, 1993); Mussa sp. in Jordan (Yousef & S´Jacob, 1994); peach in Mexico (Luna-Guerrero et al, 2011); barley, wheat and sugar beet in the Slovak Republic (Šály, 1976); forage legumes at Alachua County, Florida, USA (Abd-Elgawad et al, 2018), and mulberry (Morus alba L.) trees in Costa Rica (Peraza-Padilla, 2014), and others.…”