Diploscapteroides Rahm, 1928

syn. nov. Quercorhabditis Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013:

Q. rajouriensis Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013

The species Q. rajouriensis shares apomorphic characteristics with Diploscapteroides like heavily sclerotised and arched cheilorhabdions and anterior bursal papillae shifted postcloacally, and like its sister group Cephaloboides has spicules with a dorsal thorn and a ventral prong proximally, and its adults are ensheathed as they retain the cuticle of the last juvenile stage.

Type species: Diploscapteroides brevicauda Rahm, 1928

Six valid species were listed in catalogue 2011. Here two new species are added.

• D. persicus Ghaemi, Pourjam, Álvarez-Ortega, Pedram & Atighi, 2015 – Golestan province, northern Iran; from rotten wood in the forest.

• D. rajouriensis (Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013) comb. n. – Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India; from inside a hollow cavity in the trunk of an oak tree ( Quercus leucotrichophora).