Tarbiat Modares University Journal of Crop Protection 2251-9041 3 1 2014 03 01 New record of two species belonging to superfamily Sphaerularioidea (Nematoda: Rhabditida) from Iran 59 67 1118 10.48311/jcp.2014.1118 EN Farahnaz Jahanshahi Afshar Department of Plant Nematology, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran. Ebrahim Pourjam 3Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran Ahmad Kheiri 4Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agricultural and Natural Resources, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article Morphological and morphometric characters of two species of superfamily Sphaerularioidea, recovered in southwestern Iran namely <em>Deladenus durus</em> and <em>Prothallonema obtusum</em> are given. The recovered specimens of <em>D. durus</em> are characterized by having a valvular chamber in metacorpus and excretory pore posterior to the hemizonid.The Iranian population of <em>P. obtusum</em> is characterized by having four lines in the lateral field, excretory pore anterior to the end of pharynx, not bulgy vulva region and short subcylindrical tail. https://jcp.modares.ac.ir/article_1118_c60d060b946d6dd6145dcbad5c4ccf6f.pdf