Rotundus Ahmad and Jairajpuri, 1980

Jairajpuri, M. Shamim & Ahmad, Wasim, 1992, GENUS PUNGENTUS THORNE AND SWANGER, 1936, DORYLAIMIDA Free-living, Predaceous and Plant-parasitic Nematodes, E. J. Brill, pp. 176-207 : 188

Subgenus Rotundus Ahmad and Jairajpuri, 1980 ( Fig. 62 , E-J)

Diagnosis: Body length 0.59- 1.80 mm. Lip region slightly or distinctly setoff by depression. Odontostyle small. Odontophore rod-like without basal flanges. Males with 7 - 10 ventromedian supplements, irregularly spaced, beginning from head end of spicules. Tail hemispheroid or bluntly conoid; similar in sexes.

Type species: Enchodelus (Rotundus) parateres Baqri and Jairajpuri, 1974 . Other species:

E. (R.) analatus ( Ditlevsen, 1927) Thorne, 1939

Syn.: Dorylaimus analatus Ditlevsen, 1927

Dorylaimellus analatus ( Ditlevsen, 1927) Thorne and Swanger, 1936

E. (R.) laevis Thorne, 1939

E. (R.) parvus Loof, 1971

E. (R.) signyensis Loof, 1975

E. (R.) teres Thorne, 1939

Note: Ahmad and Jairajpuri (1980) have provided a key to the subgenera and species of Enchodelus .

Figures

Fig. 62: A to D - Enchodelus (Enchodelus) macrodorus; E to J - Enchodelus (Rotundus) parateres (A to D after Thorne, 1939; E to J after Baqri and Jairajpuri, 1974).