A New Species of Heterorhabditis from the Hawaiian Islands

Authors

Scott Lyell Gardner, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
S. Patricia Stock, University of ArizonaFollow
Harry K. Kaya, University of California, DavisFollow

Date of this Version

February 1994

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology, v. 80, no. 1 (1994): 100-106. Copyright 1994, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

A new species of nematode of the genus Heterorhabditis (Nemata: Heterorhabditidae) was found during a survey of the soil entomopathogenic nematode fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Heterorhabditis hawaiiensis sp. n. can be separated from all other species of Heterorhabditis by the length of the infective juvenile and the morphological characters of the spicules, gubemaculum, and bursa. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fragment analysis showed that this species also has a distinct genetic pattern in RAPD bands relative to the other 6 species or isolates of Heterorhabditis that were compared.