Genus Aphelenchoides Fischer, 1894

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• Aphelenchoides Fischer, M. 1894. Über eine Clematis-krankheit. Bericht aus dem Physiolischen Laboratorium des Landwirthschaftlichen, Instituts der Universtat Halle 3: 1-11 [8].

  Type species:

   Aphelenchoides kuehnii Fischer, 1894 by original designation.
• Asteroaphelenchoides Drozdovski, E.M. 1967. [Use of the characterisitics of embryonal development in the classification of eelworms]. Trudy Gel'mintologicheskoi Laboratorii Akademiya Nauk 18: 22-29 [28].
• Chitinoaphelenchus Micoletzky, H. 1922. Die freilebenden Erd-Nematoden mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Steiermark und der Bukowina, zugleich mit einer Revision samtlicher nicht mariner, freilebender Nematoden in Form von Genus — Beschreibunger un Bestimmungsschlusseln. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87: 1-650 [Date published 1921] [584].
• Paraphelenchoides Haque, M.M. 1967. Paraphelenchoides capsuloplanus n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 46(8): 1251-1253.
• Pathoaphelenchus Cobb, N.A. 1927. Note on a new nema, Aphelenchoides retusus, with a proposed division of Aphelenchus into three subgenera. Journal of Parasitology 13: 57-58.
• Pseudaphelenchoides Drozdovski, E.M. 1967. [Use of the characterisitics of embryonal development in the classification of eelworms]. Trudy Gel'mintologicheskoi Laboratorii Akademiya Nauk 18: 22-29 [28].
• Aphelenchoides (Aphelenchoides) Ruehm, W. 1956. Die Nematoden der Ipiden. Parasitologische Schriftenreihe 6: 1-435 [137].
• Ruidosaphelenchus Laumond, C. & Carle, P. 1971. Nematodes associes et parasites de Blastophagus destruens Woll. (Col. Scolytidae). Entomophaga 16: 51-66 [54].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Filipjev, I.N. 1934. The classification of the free-living nematodes and their relation to the parasitic nematodes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 89(6): 1-63 [32] (Chitinaphelenchus, Pathoaphelenchus)
• Fortuner, R. 1970. On the morphology of Aphelenchoides besseyi Christie, 1942 and A. siddiqii n.sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoidea). Journal of Helminthology 44: 141-152 [149] (Asterophelenchoides, Pseudaphelenchoides)
• Nickle, W.R. 1970. A taxonomic review of the genera of the Aphelenchoidea (Fuchs, 1937) Thorne, 1949 (Nematoda: Tylenchida). Journal of Nematology 2: 375-392 [390] (supported synonymy of Pseudaphlenchoides and Asteroaphelenchoides)
• Baujard, P. 1981. Revue taxonomique du genre Laimaphelenchus Fuchs, 1937 et description de Laimaphelenchus pini n.sp. Revue de Nematologie 4: 75-92 [91]

Introduction

Pers comm. Hodda, M. (2007) 'This genus consists of a large number of poorly-defined species. These records are all tentative because the definition of the genus is uncertain at present. Records of "Aphelenchoides sp." may represent:1) undescribed species, of which there are almost certainly several in Australia; or 2) known species which could not be identified to species for various reasons. Within the genus, there are some cosmopolitan species, and some species with restricted distributions, so for quarantine purposes we cannot say whether anything listed as "Aphelenchoides sp" will occur outside Australia as well as inside or not. The same applies to "Aphelenchoides sp" from outside Australia: we cannot say whether it also occurs within Australia or not. The genus contains some species considered to be economic pests, and some considered benign, so it is impossible to tell whether an "Aphelenchoides sp." for either reason #1 or #2 will be harmful or not.'

Several potential undescribed species may exist, including "Aphelenchoides sp. e" of Hodda et al. (1998) reported from NSW, associated with Triticum aestivum L. [POACEAE] wheat, and "Aphelenchoides sp." of Davies (2011) from Phoracantha frass [CERAMBYCIDAE] deposited on slides in the Waite Nematode Collection, The University of Adelaide (WNC 660).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

ID Keys

Tacconi & Ambrogioni (1993) (in Italian).

General References

Davies, K.A. 2011. Nematodes identified by K.A. Davies from slides of the Waite Nematode Collection. Waite Campus of The University of Adelaide.

Hodda, M., Stewart, E., FitzGibbon, F., Reid, I., Longstaff, B.C. & Packer, I. 1998. Nematodes: useful indicators of soil conditions. Canberra : RIRDC Publication 98/141 63 pp.

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