Genus Fergusobia Currie, 1937

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• Fergusobia Currie, G.A. 1937. Galls on eucalyptus trees. A new type of association between flies and nematodes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3/4): 147-174 [as subgenus Anguillulina (Fergusobia), elevated to genus status by Christie, 1941].

  Type species:

   Anguillulina (Fergusobia) tumifaciens Currie, 1937 (= Fergusobia tumifaciens (Currie, 1937) Wachek, 1955 (type lost)) by original designation.
• Dorsalla Jairajpuri, M.S. 1966. Dorsalla indica (Jairajpuri, 1962) n.comb. (Nematoda: Neotylenchidae). Labdev Journal of Science and Technology 4(2): 142-143 [142].

Introduction

"Together, nematodes of the genus Fergusobia Currie 1937 (Christie 1941) (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae) and flies of the genus Fergusonina Malloch 1924 (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) form galls on some Myrtaceae (Currie 1937; Giblin-Davis et al. 2004; Taylor et al. 2005). Each species of Fergusonina is associated with a particular species of Fergusobia, in mutualisms that generally each induce one gall form on one plant host species (Goolsby et al. 2000; Giblin-Davis et al. 2001; Taylor et al. 2005; Ye et al. 2007; S. Scheffer unpub. data)." Davies et al. (2012: 1).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL) ; WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

General References

Christie, J.R. 1941. Chapter V. Life history (zooparasitica). Parasites of invertebrates. pp. 246-266 in Christie, J.R. (ed). An Introduction to Nematology. Babylon, New York Vol. II(II) pp. 243-372. (elevated Fergusobia to the rank of genus)

Davies, K.A., Giblin-Davis, R.M., Ye, W., Lisnawita, Taylor, G.S. & Thomas, W.K. 2013. Nematodes from galls on Myrtaceae. V. Fergusobia from large multilocular shoot bud galls from Angophora and Eucalyptus in Australia, with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa 3741(1): 101–140 (new species and molecular phylogenetic analysis)

Davies, K.A., Giblin Davis, R.M., Ye, W., Taylor, G. & Thomas, W.K. 2012. Nematodes from galls on Myrtaceae. III. Fergusobia from flower bud and stigma galls on Eucalyptus, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 3532: 1-36

Davies, K.A., Giblin-Davis, R.M., Ye, W., Taylor, G.S. & Thomas, W.K. 2013. Nematodes from galls on Myrtaceae. IV. Fergusobia from flat leaf galls on Eucalyptus and Corymbia, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 3741(1): 151–171

Giblin-Davis, R.M., Davies, K.A., Taylor, G.S. & Thomas, W.K. 2004. Entomophilic nematode models for studying biodiversity and cospeciation. pp. 493-540 in Chen, Z.X., Chen, S.Y. & Dickson, D.W. (eds). Nematology, Advances and Perspectives. New York : Tsing-Hua University Press/CABI.

Giblin-Davis, R.M., Makinson, J., Center, B.J., Davies, K. A., Purcell, M., Taylor, G. S., Scheffer, S., Goolsby, J., & Center, T.D. 2001. Fergusobia-Fergusonina-induced shoot bud development on Melaleuca quinquenervia. Journal of Nematology 33: 239-247

Taylor, G.S., Head, E. & Davies, K.A. 2005. Gall flies (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) on Myrtaceae: a mutualistic association between flies and nematodes. pp. 643-671 in Raman, A., Schaefer, C.W. & Withers, T.M. (eds). Biology, Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. New Hampshire, U.S.A : Science Publishers Vol. 2.

Ye, W., Giblin-Davis, R.M., Davies, K.A., Purcell, M., Scheffer, S.J., Taylor, G.S., Center, T.D., Morris, K. & Thomas, W.K. 2007. Molecular phylogenetics and the evolution of host plant associations in the nematode genus Fergusobia (Tylenchida: Fergusobiinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 123-141

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