Scutellonema brachyurum

(Fig. 2 F–H)

Measurements. See Table 3.

Remarks. Scutellonema brachyurum was described from red spiderlily ( Lycoris radiata) in Hamlet, Richmond County, NC, and was also documented in SC (Kraus-Schmidt & Lewis 1979). CABI (2006) recorded S. brachyurum in six countries in Europe, 11 in Asia, 15 in Africa, two in North America (Canada, USA including Arkansas, California, Florida, NC, SC), four in Central America and the Caribbean, four in South America, and five in Oceania. A series of studies on the host range of S. brachyurum in South Africa was carried out from 1988 to 2001 (Waele & Jordaan 1988a; 1988b; Bolton et al. 1989; Jordaan et al. 1992; Venter et al. 1992; Fourie et al. 2001). Tarjan (1964a) reported it on bermudagrass in Egypt. Agudelo & Harshman (2011) first found it on lilyturf ( Liriope muscari) in SC. In the present study, S. brachyurum was found only in Beaufort County, SC, in samples from a bermudagrass putting green. The morphology and morphometrics of the identified population did not differ from other populations (Siddiqi 1974b).

Stylet length 45.3 ± 0.9 47.5 ± 3.0 39.5 50.1 ± 2.6 41.5 46.5 ± 1.5 (44.0–46.0) (45.0–55.0) (48.0–56.0) (45.0–49.0)

Stylet cone 27.0 ± 2.2 28.3 ± 3.5 20.5 29.0 ± 1.6 22.5 26.3 ± 1.1

length (24.0–29.0) (26.0–37.0) (27.0–32.0) (25.0–28.0)