“…Martin et al (1973) reported a variety of different ne matode types associated with figs in tropical Africa, but provided few taxonomic details. Two nematode genera, Schistonchus Cobb, 1927(Fuchs, 1937) (Aphelenchoididae) and Parasitodiplogaster Poinar, 1979 (Diplogastridae), are well known from inside the sycones of Ficus species worldwide (Gasparrini, 1864;Poinar, 1979;Kumari & Reddy, 1984;Reddy & Rao, 1984;Poinar & Herre, 1991;Giblin-Davis et al, 1995, 2003, 2006Lloyd & Davies, 1997;DeCrappeo & Giblin-Davis, 2001;Anand, 2002;Zeng et al, 2007Zeng et al, , 2010Zeng et al, , 2011Zeng et al, , 2013aBartholomaeus et al, 2009Bartholomaeus et al, , 2012Davies et al, 2009Davies et al, , 2010Kanzaki et al, 2010Kanzaki et al, , 2012Kanzaki et al, , 2013Kanzaki et al, , 2014aWohr et al, 2014). Schistonchus is a polyphyletic plant-parasitic nematode grouping in the Aphelenchoididae that feeds and reproduces on the epidermis of florets inside the sycone and is an internal phoretic of its fig wasp pol linator host which transports it to the next suitable fig (Vovlas etal., 1992(Vovlas etal., , 1996Giblin-Davis etal., 1995;Cen ter et al, 1999;Davies et al, 2010).…”