Verutus |
Contents |
Rev 02/25/2011 |
||
|
|
Classification |
|
Hosts | |
|
|
|
Morphology and Anatomy |
|
Life Cycle |
| Return to Verutus Menu |
|
Economic Importance |
|
Damage |
|
|
|
Distribution |
|
Management |
| Return to Heteroderidae Menu |
|
Feeding |
|
References |
| Go to Nemaplex Home Page |
Tylenchida
Tylenchina
Tylenchoidea
Heteroderidae
Heteroderinae
Verutus (Esser, 1981)
Synonyms:
None.
. |
Females: No cyst stage. Body saccate, sausage-shaped, or kidney-shaped. Cuticle thick, annulated over total body length; D-layer absent; multiple B-layer present; subcrystalline layer present [For information on ultrastructure of the cuticle and definition of its layers, see Shepherd, Clark & Dart (1972) and Baldwin (1983)]. Vulva submedian, large, with protruberant vulva lips. No phasmids. Remnant of tail very short to absent. Eggs not retained in body, but deposited individually, without gelatinous matrix. |
|
Males: Body not twisted. Stylet under 30 µm long. Lateral field with four lines. Spicules strong, slightly curved. No phasmids. Tail short. Second-stage juveniles: Lateral field with four lines. Esophageal glands filling body cavity. Tail pointed, with long, hyaline, terminal part. Phasmids punctiform, small, devoid of lens-like
structure. |
Nurse cell system is a syncytium.
For an extensive list of host plant species and their susceptibility to this genus, copy the genus name
Verutus
select Nemabase Genus Search and paste the name in the Genus box
Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner, Rev. Nematol. 11:159-176 (1988).]