Plant-parasitic nematodes of Croatia1

Investigations on the distribution of nematodes were carried out mostly in the northern and eastern parts of Croatia up to 1991. Sampling was performed in the following crops: maize, wheat, barley, sugarbeet, soybean, sunflower, rape, tobacco, potato, alfalfa, blackberry, onion, carrot, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, capsicum, oak, chrysanthemum, tulip, rose, grapevine, peach, apple, plum, pear, cherry, poplar, willow, clover, nettle, grass, meadow, woodland, many species of weeds, various glasshouse crops and vegetation in a nature reserve. 63 genera of nematodes with 81 species were detected. The most numerous representatives of plant parasitic nematodes were: Anguina, Aphelenchoides, Aphelenchus, Criconemoides, Ditylenchus, Gracilacus, Helicotylenchus, Hemicycliophora, Heterodera, Longidorus, Macroposthonia, Meloidogyne, Paratylenchus, Pratylenchus, Rotylenchulus, Rotylenchus, Trichodorus, Tylenchorhynchus, Tylenchus and Xiphinema.