New record of two species belonging to superfamily Sphaerularioidea (Nematoda: Rhabditida) from Iran

Jahanshahi Afshar, Farahnaz; Pourjam, Ebrahim; Kheiri, Ahmad

doi:10.48311/jcp.2014.1118

New record of two species belonging to superfamily Sphaerularioidea (Nematoda: Rhabditida) from Iran

10.48311/jcp.2014.1118

Volume 3, Issue 1
March 2014

Pages 59-67

Authors

F. Jahanshahi Afshar ¹

E. Pourjam ²

A. Kheiri ³

¹ Department of Plant Nematology, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran.

² 3Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran

³ 4Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agricultural and Natural Resources, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Morphological and morphometric characters of two species of superfamily Sphaerularioidea, recovered in southwestern Iran namely Deladenus durus and Prothallonema obtusum are given. The recovered specimens of D. durus are characterized by having a valvular chamber in metacorpus and excretory pore posterior to the hemizonid.The Iranian population of P. obtusum 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.

Keywords

Deladenus durus

Prothallonema obtusum

Pistacia atlantica

Iran