Aphelenchoides
Aphelenchoides is a genus of mycetophagous nematodes. Some species are plant pathogenic foliar nematodes. Taxonomy. In 1961 Sanwal listed 33 species and provided a key. The most important species of these are "Aphelenchoides ritzemabosi", the chrysanthemum foliar nematode; "Aphelenchoides fragariae", the spring crimp or spring dwarf nematode of strawberry, which also attacks many ornamentals; and "Aphelenchoides besseyi", causing summer crimp or dwarf of strawberry and white tip of rice. Several species of this genus feed ectoparasitically and endoparasitically on aboveground plant parts.