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samples, three
Xiphinema
(viz.
X. cretense, X.
herakliense
and
X. israeliae
) and four
Longi-
dorus
species (viz.
L. closelongatus
,
L. creten-
sis, L. iranicus,
and
L. pseudoelongatus
) were
found. Although
L. moesicus
was previously
reported on grapevine in Crete (Tzortzaka-
kis
et al
., 2014), after recent studies (Maafi
et al.
, 2015), this species has been synon-
ymized with
Longidorus iranicus
. All these
data are presented in Table 1, which supple-
ments previously published results (Tzort-
zakakis
et al
., 2014, 2015) for cultivated and
wild olive trees and grapevines from Crete.
Thus the updated records, considering also
the previous studies, on the percentage of
occurrence for the detected nematode spe-
cies is as follows:
a) In 146 soil samples from olive orchards:
L. closelongatus
1.4%,
L. cretensis
0.7%,
L.
iranicus
0.7%,
L. pseudoelongatus
6.2%,
X.
cretense
2%,
X. herakliense
0.7%,
X. index
2% ,
X. israeliae
7.5%,
X. italiae
7.5% and
X.
pachtaicum
39%,
b) In 36 soil samples from wild olive trees:
L.
closelongatus
2.8%,
X. herakliense
36.1%,
X. israeliae
2.8%,
X. italiae
2.8% and.
X.
pachtaicum
5.6%,
c) In 130 samples from vineyards (exclud-
ing
X. index
,
X. italiae
and
X. pachtaicum
):
L. closelongatus
5.4%,
L. cretensis
2.3%,
L.
iranicus
6.2%,
L. orientalis
0.8%,
L. pseu-
doelongatus
1.5%,
X. cretense
0.8%,
X. her-
akliense
1.5%,
X. israeliae
0.8% and
X. sim-
ile
0.8%.
In conclusion, the data presented here-
in, indicate some new information for the
presence of Longidoridae in Crete.
Xiphine-
ma israeliae
,
X. cretense
,
X. herakliense
and
L.
pseudoelongatus
were found on grapevine,
while until now they had been found exclu-
sively on olive trees;
L. iranicus
was found on
cultivated olive trees, whereas until now it
had been found only on grapevines;
X. itali-
ae
and
L. closelongatus
are reported for first
time on wild olive trees.
This research was supported by grant KBBE
219262 ArimNET-ERANET FP7 2012-2015 Proj-
ect PESTOLIVE ‘Contribution of olive history for
the management of soilborne parasites in the
Mediterranean basin’ fromHellenic Agricultur-
al Organization-DEMETER and Instituto Na-
cional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y
Alimentaria (INIA), grant AGR-136 from ‘Conse-
jería de Economía, Innvovación y Ciencia’ from
Junta de Andalucía, and Union Europea, Fon-
do Europeo de Desarrollo regional, “Una man-
era de hacer Europa”. I.G. Birmpilis and E. Na-
siou were employed by the ARIMNET-PESTOL-
IVE project. The authors thank J. Martín Bar-
barroja and G. León Ropero from IAS-CSIC for
the excellent technical assistance.
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