“…The pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a key commercial crop, a vegetable species and oleoresin from which capsaicin is extracted (Aguilar-Melendez et al, 2009). Phytoparasitic nematodes are an important factor that limits pepper production in the country, and root-knot nematodes have been reported to cause losses of up to 23% in pepper production (Robertson et al, 2006;Santiago-Luna et al, 2018). Similarly, more than 100 root gall nematode species have been described (Skantar et al, 2008), but worldwide, only four species, Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica, M. hapla, and M. arenaria are pimiento pepper pests (Theis and Fery, 2002;Miranda et al, 2011).…”