Sphaerularioidea

Wheat seed gall nematode Anguina tritici, from here.

Belongs within: Tylenchina.

The Sphaerularioidea is a group of nematodes of which most species are internal parasites of insects for part of their life cycles. Exceptions are in the family Anguinidae, whose members are free-living fungus feeders or parasites of plants.

<==Sphaerularioidea
    |  i. s.: Tripius MM02
    |--Phaenopsitylenchus Blinova & Korenchenko 1986 [Phaenopsitylenchidae] PJ02
    |--Iotonchiidae PJ02
    |--Fergusobiidae PJ02
    |--Parasitylenchidae PJ02
    |--Beddingia Blinova & Korenchenko 1986 [Beddingiidae] PJ02
    |    `--B. siricidicola [=Deladenus siricidicola] MM02
    |--Sphaerularia [Sphaerulariidae] PJ02
    |    `--S. bombi MM02
    |--Bradynema H02 [Allantonematidae PJ02]
    |    `--B. rigidum H02
    |--Neotylenchus [Neotylenchidae] LB02
    |    `--N. linfordi L02b
    |--Anguina [Anguinidae] LB02
    |    |--A. agrostis L02b
    |    |--A. funesta L02a
    |    `--A. tritici MM02
    `--Anandranematidae PJ02
         |--Anandranema Poinar et al. 1993 PJ02
         |    `--A. phlebotophaga Poinar et al. 1993 PJ02
         `--Elaeolenchus Poinar, Jackson et al. 2002 PJ02
              `--*E. parthenonema Poinar, Jackson et al. 2002 PJ02

Nomina nuda: Beddingia barisii Laumond & Bonifassi in Remillet & Laumond 1991 PJ02

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[H02] Hope, I. A. 2002. Embryology, developmental biology and the genome. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 121-145. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[L02a] Lee, D. L. 2002a. Cuticle, moulting and exsheathment. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 171-209. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[L02b] Lee, D. L. 2002b. Behaviour. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 369-387. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[LB02] Ley, P. de, & M. Blaxter. 2002. Systematic position and phylogeny. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 1-30. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[MM02] Munn, E. A., & P. D. Munn. 2002. Feeding and digestion. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 211-232. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[PJ02] Poinar, G. O., Jr., T. A. Jackson, N. L. Bell & M. B. Wahid. 2002. Elaeolenchus parthenonema n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Sphaerularioidea: Anandranematidae n. fam.) parasitic in the palm-pollinating weevil Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust, with a phylogenetic synopsis of the Sphaerularioidea Lubbock 1861. Systematic Parasitology 52: 219-225.