Aphelenchoides fragariae ( Ritzema Bos, 1890 ) Christie, 1932

Sánchez-Monge, Alcides, Flores, Lorena, Salazar, Luis, Hockland, Sue & Bert, Wim, 2015, An updated list of the plants associated with plant-parasitic Aphelenchoides (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) and its implications for plant-parasitism within this genus, Zootaxa 4013 (2), pp. 207-224 : 212

Aphelenchoides fragariae ( Ritzema Bos, 1890) Christie, 1932

The most striking augmentation in the number of reported plant associations of Aphelenchoides spp. belongs to A. fragariae . Escuer & Bello (2000) and Fu (2012) quote Siddiqi (1975) and mention 250 plant species belonging to 47 families, but as shown in Table 1 and Fig. 1 , at least 621 plant species and varieties from 287 genera are associated with A. fragariae , most of them (84%) within flowering plants. A. fragariae is also the species that is reported on the highest number of ferns followed by A. ritzemabosi and A. besseyi , 162, 7 and 4 species respectively ( Fig. 1 ). To date, it is also the only Aphelenchoides species reported on Marchantiophyta ( Kohl 2008). Several hosts are shared with other Aphelenchoides species ( Fig. 2 ).

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FIGURE 1. Number of species / varieties of plants associated with foliar nematodes in ferns (Pteridophyta), monocots (Liliopsida), dicots (Magnoliopsida) and other botanical groups

FIGURE 2. Number of single and shared associated plant species (left) and families (right) of foliar nematodes (Aphelenchoides). Between brackets is the corresponding number of ferns for each case