Heterorhabditis is a genus of nematodes belonging to the order Rhabditida. All species of this genus are obligate parasites of insects, and some are used as biological control agents for the control of pest insects.
Heterorhabditis nematodes are hosts for the Photorhabdus bacterial symbiont.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:
- Heterorhabditis amazonensis <small>Andaló, Nguyen & Moino, 2007</small>
- Heterorhabditis bacteriophora <small>Poinar, 1976</small>
- Heterorhabditis baujardi <small>Phan, Subbotin, Nguyen & Moens, 2003</small>
- Heterorhabditis downesi <small>Stock, Griffin & Burnell, 2002</small>
- Heterorhabditis floridensis <small>Nguyen, Gozel, Koppenhöfer & Adams, 2006</small>
- Heterorhabditis georgiana <small>Nguyen, Shapiro-Ilan and Mbata, 2008</small>
- Heterorhabditis heliothidis <small>(Khan, Brooks & Hirschmann, 1976)</small>
- Heterorhabditis indica <small>Poinar, Karunakar & David, 1992</small>
- Heterorhabditis marelatus <small>Liu & Berry, 1996</small>
- Heterorhabditis megidis <small>Poinar, Jackson & Klein, 1987</small>
- Heterorhabditis mexicana <small>Nguyen, Shapiro-Ilan, Stuart, McCoy, James & Adams, 2004</small>
- Heterorhabditis safricana <small>Malan, Nguyen, de Waal and Tiedt, 2008</small>
- Heterorhabditis taysearae <small>Shamseldean, El-Sooud, Abd-Elgawad & Saleh, 1996</small>
- Heterorhabditis zealandica <small>Poinar, 1990</small>
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