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Female:
- Body straight to C-shaped, about 1mm long.
- Cuticle prominently striated;.
- Lateral fields 29–34% of body width; sometimes
irregularly areolated in pharyngeal and tail regions. Six
incisures in mush of the length.
- Head conoid, usually with apex flattened or somewhat rounded,
continuous with body contour. Head with seven or eight striae up
to the end of outer extension of cephalic framework.
- Cephalic framework moderately sclerotized, outer margins
extending over three body annuli.
- Anterior and posterior cephalids 8–10 and 19–21 µm
respectively from the anterior end.
- Stylet well developed, about 30um long, 2.8–3.1 times as long
as the lip region width; conus slightly shorter than the shaft,
knobs with anterior surfaces slightly sloping backward.
- DEGO 2.6–3.6 µm from the base of stylet.
- Deirids at level of hemizonid, two to four annuli anterior to
the level of secretory/excretory pore.
- Metacorpus oval, with prominent valve plates,
- Isthmus slender, 1.0–1.1 times as the length of the
basal bulb.
- Nerve ring 116–121 µm from the anterior end.
- Basal esophageal bulb cylindrical, length/width ratio 2.1–2.7,
offset from intestine; cardia prominent, rounded.
- Vulva transverse slit, flush with body surface, with inner or
outer double epiptygmata.
- Vagina less than half body-width long, not sclerotized,
usually dilated inwards as its walls curve out to uterus.
- Spermathecae rounded, with sperm cells; indistinct in some
individuals.
- Didelphic, amphidelphic, ovaries outstretched, with a
single row of oocytes, except in multiplication region.
- Rectum about half of the anal body width, no post-anal
intestinal sac.
- Tail cylindrical to clavate, terminus smooth,
- Phasmids large and punctiform,
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