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Specimen #19040

Specimen record details
Entry Number 19040
Nematode Genus Schistonchus
Nematode Species africanus
Host Genus Ficus
Host Species thonningii
Common Name Fig
Country South Africa
State North West Province
City/Locale Sun City, garden of the Sun City complex, near Rustenburg
Collector via Nicola Vovlas
Date Collected 1996 May
Date Received 1999 Feb 08
Determined By Zafar A. Handoo
Taxon Author N. Vovlas, A. Troccoli, S. Van Noort, E. Van den Berg (1998)
Disposition of Sample Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Nematodes In Syconium (fruit, inflorescence, florets)
Total Samples 1 of 2 slides
Slide Number T-4807p (Paratypes, 2 females & 1 male)
Reference Journal of Nematology 30(4): 404-410
Remarks Host: from florets, nematodes transported by the winged females of Elisabethiella stuckenbergi (fig wasp), in the abdominal cavity.