Pratylenchus

Alvani, Somaye, Mahdikhani-Moghadam, Esmat, Rouhani, Hamid & Mohammadi, Abbas, 2016, A checklist of the family Pratylenchidae Thorne, 1949 from Iran, Zootaxa 4079 (2), pp. 179-204 : 192

22. Pratylenchus sp. Majd Taheri, Tanha Maafi, Subbotin, Pourjam & Eskandari 2013

(Majd Taheri et al. 2013) 6♀: L= 416 (371–473) µm; a = 24.9 (21.7–29.2); b = 5 (4.1–6); b' = 3.7 (3–4.6); c = 18.4 (15.2–20.6); c' = 2.1 (1.8–2.4); St = 14.7 (14–15) µm; V = 75.1 (72.6–76.9)

Associated plant and locality. Plum (Gilan).

Reference. Majd Taheri et al. 2013 [F, M].

Remarks. The Iranian population of Pratylenchus sp. resembles P. z e a e, sharing most morphological and morphometric characters, but has some differences in tail shape (conoid and terminating in a bluntly rounded end vs narrowly rounded to subacute and bluntly pointed terminus) and lower value of c´(2 vs 2.1–3) (Hashim 1983), (2 vs 3–3.5) (Ryss 1988), (2 vs 2–4) (Van den Berg & Quénéhervé 2000). However, the anal body diameter in Pratylenchus sp. is wider than P. z e a e and the tail is not tapered abruptly at anus level.