The genus Deficephalobus De Ley & Coomans, 1990 (Cephalobina: Osstellidae) from nature reserves in Costa Rica

Nematology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-477
Author(s):  
Tom Bongers ◽  
Oleksandr Holovachov ◽  
Alejandro Esquivel

AbstractTwo species of the genus Deficephalobus, D. mirabilis sp. n. and D. desenderi, are described and illustrated on the basis of material collected in Costa Rica. The new species is characterised by 0.67-1.2 mm long body; bluntly rounded labial region; amphidial aperture one-third of labial region diam. wide; cheilostom barrel-shaped with sclerotised, bar-shaped, cheilorhabdia; gymnostom barrel-shaped with moderately sclerotised lining of gymnostom; stegostom funnel-shaped anteriorly, narrow tubular posteriorly and subdivided into four sets of rhabdia; basal bulb elongate ovoid with weakly developed valvular apparatus; excretory pore opening anterior to nerve ring; ovary tip almost reaching the level of rectum, large spermatheca, postvulval uterine sac shorter than vulval body diameter; female tail elongate conoid and straight, with filiform tail terminus; male tail short conoid with small, ragged, terminal mucro.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4358 (3) ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
JOAQUÍN ABOLAFIA ◽  
EBRAHIM SHOKOOHI

A new species belonging to the genus Stegelletina, S. lingulata sp. n., is described from xeric natural areas from Iran. It is characterized by having small body (0.51–0.69 mm in females and 0.45–0.64 mm in males), cuticle slightly tessellated especially at anterior end, lateral field with three longitudinal incisures, lips with long acute process at primary axils and three more dentate processes at secondary axils, primary axils with one triangular axillar guard process and secondary axils lacking axillar processes, labial probolae long (9–11 µm) with slender peduncle lacking adaxial expansion and with convergent smooth prongs, stoma, pharynx and reproductive systems cephaloboid, excretory pore at isthmus level, spermatheca 1.1–1.4 times, and post-vulval sac 0.9–1.2 times the corresponding body diameters in length, female rectum 0.6–0.8 times anal body diameter long, female tail conoid (35–47 µm long, c = 14.0–15.6, c' = 2.1–2.7) with fine rounded terminus, male tail conoid, curved ventrad (53–59 µm long, c = 11.0–12.0, c' = 1.9–2.5) with rounded terminus, spicules 31–33 µm long with ventrally straight manubrium and gubernaculum 14–17 µm long. Measurements and illustrations (line drawings, LM and SEM) are provided for this species. In addition, comments on the morphology of the lip region of the species of the genus Stegelletina are included. 



Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3407 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
NEGIN AMIRZADI ◽  
EBRAHIM SHOKOOHI ◽  
ALI ESKANDARI ◽  
JOAQUÍN ABOLAFIA

A new species of the genus Acrolobus was recovered during a survey of soil nematodes. Acrolobus longigubernaculumsp. n., collected from the rhizosphere of weeds in northeastern Iran, is described and illustrated. It is characterized by abody length of 0.72–0.98 mm in females and 0.73–0.84 mm in males, annulated cuticle, lateral fields with three longitu-dinal incisures, lip region slightly offset from the neck and 8–11μm wide, lips leaf-like, stoma 12–16 µm long, pharyngealcorpus 2.7–3.2 times isthmus length, vulva located slightly posterior to middle of body (V = 61–65), spermatheca 26–46µm long, postuterine sac 27–49 µm long or 0.9–1.3 times the corresponding body diameter, female tail conical with a fine,short mucro (47–58 µm, c = 13.9–18.5, c’ = 2.4–3.2), male tail conical bearing a fine mucro (47–50 µm, c = 14.8–17.5;c’ = 2–2.3), spicules 26–30μm long and ventrally curved, and gubernaculum 12–16 µm long (50% of spicule length). The new taxon is the second species of the genus Acrolobus and is compared to the type species, A. emarginatus.



Nematology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiwu Fang ◽  
Jianfeng Gu ◽  
Xuan Wang ◽  
Hongmei Li

Aphelenchoides stellatusn. sp. is described and figured. The new species was isolated from packaging wood from Japan imported to Ningbo harbour, China. The new species has a body length of 485-533 μm (males) and 547-699 μm (females). The cuticle is weakly annulated and there are four lines in the lateral field. The stylet is 9-11 μm long and has small basal swellings. The excretory pore is located posterior to the nerve ring. Spicules smoothly curved, rose-thorn shaped. Apex and rostrum round, only slightly offset, dorsal limb 19-21 μm long. Male tail bearing six (2 + 2 + 2) caudal papillae. The female spermatheca is axial and oblong with round sperm present in multiple rows. Both male and female tail pegs have 3-4 processes, appearing star-like under SEM. The new species belongs to the Group 3 category ofAphelenchoidesspecies. Phylogenetic analyses based on full length ITS and 28S D2/D3 region of rDNA confirmed its morphological status as a new species.



Nematology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Ivanova ◽  
Birger Neuhaus

AbstractA new species and genus of nematodes (Ungellidae, Drilonematoidea) parasitic in the coelomic cavity of Notiodrilus bovei deposited in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, is described and illustrated. Malvinia crassa gen. n., sp. n. is characterised by its short, bloated, curved body tapering to both ends, paired, superficially attached cephalic hooks, short infundibular stoma, a pharynx comprising a pre-corpal bulb-like swelling, procorpus, isthmus and basal bulb, nerve ring encircling isthmus, excretory pore located posterior to the nerve ring, weakly cuticularised excretory duct, vulva, slightly post-median, short precloacal process in males, large grain-like spermatids, sperm in spermatheca ball-shaped, ca 20 μm diam., composed of smaller particles resembling spermatids; symmetrically placed, large, fimbriate caudal organs lacking a cavity, and absence of amphids, cephalic and male cloacal sensilla and post-uterine sac. Malvinia gen. n. is differentiated from all genera of the Ungellinae on the basis of its small size, vesiculate vs vermiform body shape, very long reflexed portion of testis and highly modified sperm. From the closest species of the genus Ungella, the new species differs by the presence vs absence of a stoma and pre-corpal swelling of the pharynx, structure of fimbriate caudal organs, larger spermatids in male and sperm in female spermatheca, and absence of lateral differentiation of the cuticle. A key to the genera of Ungellinae is proposed.



Nematology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 709-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Wim Bert ◽  
Jianfeng Gu ◽  
Marjolein Couvreur ◽  
Hongmei Li

Summary Aphelenchoides medicagus n. sp. isolated in Ningbo Port, P.R. China, from dried leaves and shoots of Medicago sativa imported from the USA, is described. It is characterised by a lateral field with four lines (three bands), stylet 9.0-12.0 μm long, excretory pore situated at same level as, or slightly posterior, to the nerve ring, vagina sclerotised, female vulval flap absent, post-uterine sac short, spicules 9.2-14.2 μm long (median curved line), rosethorn-shaped, apex and rostrum rounded, poorly developed, female and male tail conical with terminus bearing star-like processes. The new species belongs to the Group 3 category of Aphelenchoides species sensu Shahina. Phylogenetic analyses based on 18S, ITS and 28S D2-D3 of rDNA and mtCOI sequences confirmed its status as a new species and closely related to A. besseyi and A. fujianensis.



Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4652 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOAQUÍN ABOLAFIA ◽  
REYES PEÑA-SANTIAGO

A new species of the genus Metarhabditis, M. giennensis sp. n., collected from a riverbank poplar forest in the southern Iberian Peninsula, is described and illustrated, including SEM observations. The new species is characterized by its 1.01–1.16 mm long body in females and 0.77–0.98 in males, cuticle with very fine transverse striation, lip region 9–14 µm broad and consisting of six swollen rounded lips fused in pairs, stoma 14–25 µm long with tubular gymno-promesostegostom, pharynx with slightly swollen metacorpus and slender isthmus, nerve ring, excretory pore and deirids located at isthmus level, female reproductive system didelphic-amphidelphic, vulva equatorial (V = 49–50), female rectum length 1.2–1.7 times the anal body width, female tail conical-elongate with acute tip (123–199 µm, c = 5.8–8.2, c’ = 8.2–11.1), male tail conical (34–56 µm, c = 15.5–25.7, c’ = 2.4–3.5), bursa leptoderan, 32–41 µm long spicules with rounded and ventrally bent manubrium, and 17–20 µm long gubernaculum. An updated list of species of the genus and a key for their identification are also provided. [Zoobank URL: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7EBAC9DB-A148-4A1A-97E5-3B796D0839BF] 



Nematology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Wang ◽  
Pei Wang ◽  
Jianfeng Gu ◽  
Jiangling Wang ◽  
Hongmei Li

Aphelenchoides xui sp. n. is described and illustrated from imported packaging wood from South Africa intercepted at Ningbo Port, China. The new species has a body length of 564-820 μm (males) and 549-882 μm (females). The cuticle is weakly annulated with four lines in the lateral field. The stylet is 11-13 μm long and has small basal swellings. The excretory pore is located ca one body diam. posterior to the median bulb, or 75-100 μm from the head. Spicules are relatively large (18-23 μm) with apex and rostrum rounded and well developed and the end of the dorsal limb clearly curved ventrad like a hook. The male tail bears six (2 + 2 + 2) caudal papillae. The spermatheca is axial and oblong and contains disc-like sperm. The female tail is conical, terminating in a complicated step-like projection, usually with many tiny nodular protuberances. The new species is morphologically similar to A. arcticus, A. haguei and A. parasaprophilus in Group 2 sensu Shahina, but is distinguished by spicule shape and form of the female tail terminus. Phylogenetic analysis based on SSU and partial LSU sequences revealed that A. xui sp. n. was closest to A. varicaudatus, although some species of Laimaphelenchus and Schistonchus were also included in the same branch.



Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4712 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-376
Author(s):  
JANS MORFFE ◽  
NAYLA GARCÍA ◽  
KOICHI HASEGAWA ◽  
RAMON A. CARRENO

Aoruroides chubudaigaku n. sp. (Nematoda: Oxyuridomorpha: Thelastomatidae) is described from the wood-burrowing cockroach Panesthia angustipennis spadica (Shiraki, 1906) (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Panesthiinae) from Aichi prefecture, Japan. Females of A. chubudaigaku n. sp. are similar to A. costaricensis Carreno & Tuhela, 2011 by the position of the nerve ring at level of the first third of the isthmus, the body length and the comparative measurements of the oesophagus and tail. They differ by the position of the excretory pore and the vulva. The males of A. chubudaigaku n. sp. are characterized by the absence of ornamentations in the cervical cuticle and the nerve ring located at the posterior third of the corpus. In addition, the males of the new species can be differentiated by the length of the body and the comparative lengths of the oesophagus and the tail. The phylogeny of A. chubudaigaku n. sp. is inferred by the D2-D3 domains of the LSU rDNA and the validity of the genus Aoruroides Travassos & Kloss, 1958 is discussed on the basis of both molecular and morphological data. This constitutes the first species of the genus Aoruroides described from the Japanese archipelago. 



Nematology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 725-737
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Gu ◽  
Yiwu Fang ◽  
Lele Liu ◽  
Majid Pedram ◽  
Hongmei Li

Summary Bursaphelenchus pterocarpi n. sp. isolated from Pterocarpus sp. logs imported from Ghana to Ningbo, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is characterised by a female body length of 630-946 μm, lateral field with four lines, a short 12.6-13.9 μm long stylet with small basal swellings, excretory pore located posterior to nerve ring, outstretched reproductive system with amoeboid sperm inside the spermatheca, a well-developed vulval flap, tail conical and straight with a 1.9-4.8 μm long mucron at the tip, and lacking males in both the wild type and fungal-cultured populations. In a concatenated tree, reconstructed on the basis of the partial 18S, full length ITS and partial 28S rDNA D2-D3 sequences, the new species occupied a basal placement to the clade of xylophilus-group and africanus-group species.



Nematology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1061-1078
Author(s):  
Hongmei Li ◽  
Jianfeng Gu ◽  
Yiwu Fang ◽  
Kai Guo ◽  
Ute Schönfeld ◽  
...  

Summary Bursaphelenchus leoni is redescribed, using morphology, morphometrics and molecular data, based on a population isolated from dead Pinus massoniana in Zhejiang Province, China. It is characterised by a lateral field with three lines, a 12-15 μm long stylet with small basal swellings, excretory pore located one body diam. posterior to nerve ring, spicules mitten-shaped, dorsally and ventrally arcuate, with lamina smoothly tapering towards broadly rounded distal tip without hook-like process in the Chinese population, condylus broadly rounded with a small dorsally bent hook, rostrum triangle or conical with finely rounded tip. The bursal flap is long, spade-like with posterior margin truncate or irregular. A 2-3 μm long vulval flap is present. The female tail is long and conical (c′ = 5.3-6.9), with the terminus finely rounded, or occasionally pointed. The Zhejiang population of B. leoni is close to B. eidmanni and B. silvestris, which all belong to the leoni-group sensu Braasch et al. (2009). Comparison with the description of B. borealis led to the conclusion that B. leoni and B. borealis are conspecific, the latter being regarded as a junior synonym of the former.



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