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. 2021 Sep 30;50(6):695–704. doi: 10.1007/s13313-021-00820-1

Table.1.

Plant-parasitic nematodes detected on turfgrass by Biological Crop Protection in the 15 years from 2006 to 2020 in 435 diagnostic samples from 123 locations in Queensland

Common name Genus/Family % locations infested Nematodes/200 mL soil Damage thresholdb % samples > Damage threshold
Mean a Highest
Spiral Rotylenchus 49 606 17,250 800 3.4
Spiral Helicotylenchus 37 229 2,600 800 8.3
Stubby root Paratrichodorus 63 60 1,750 80 10.6
Ring Criconematidae 30 81 1,250 300 1.8
Sheath Hemicycliophora 33 65 960 160 3.4
Lesion Pratylenchus 29 151 3,275 200 4.8
Root-knot Meloidogyne 23 106 1,810 800 0.5
Dagger Xiphinema 25 69 1,810 40 6.7
Stunt Tylenchorhynchus 4 69 450 400 0.2
Cyst Heterodera 4 20 64 150 0
Needle Paralongidorus 3 28 99 20 1.4
Reniform Rotylenchulus 1 109 175 600 0
Pin Paratylenchus 0.5 67 94 200 0

aMean of samples in which the nematode was detected

bThreshold levels (nematodes/200 mL soil) from Stirling (2008)