Six known plant-feeding nematodes from Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana (Nemata: Tylenchina)
Keywords:
Description, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, new records, taxonomy, tylenchid nematodesAbstract
Descriptions, notes and illustrations are given for six known tylenchid species from Guadeloupe, French Guiana and Martinique viz.
Criconema paraguayense (Andrássy, 1968 Raski & Luc, 1985, Discocriconemella degrissei Loof & Sharma, 1980, Mesocriconema denoudeni (De Grisse, 1967) Loof & De Grisse, 1989, M. oostenbrinki (Loof, 1964) Andrássy, 1965, Paratylenchus bilineatus (Brzeski, 1995) Brzeski, 1998 and Pratylenchus coffeae (Zimmermann, 1898) Filip’ev & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1941. C. paraguayense and M. oostenbrinki are reported from the Caribbean for the first time while P. bilineatus and males of D. degrissei are reported from French Guiana for the first time. M. denoudeni is very widespread throughout the whole area. Several P. coffeae females, from one locality, were found to have a fully functional posterior ovary.
