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Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Hoplolaimidae Hoplolaiminae
Aorolaimus Sher, 1963
Type species of the genus: Aorolaimus helicus Sher, 1963
Synonyms: Peltamigratus (Sher, 1963) Nectopelta (Siddiqi, 1986)
Note, Fortuner, 1987 and Baujard et al, 1991, 1994 considered Peltamigratus a junior synonym of Aorolaimus. However, Siddiqi (2000) resurrected Peltamigratus.
Photograph by Ana Child, NREL, Colorado State University
Female:
The genus Aorolaimus can be distinguiashed from Hoplolaimus by the less massive cephalic framework, the smaller stylet knobs without anterior projections, the lateral field with 4 incisures and areolated only at the phasmids and in the antterior (Sher, 1963).
Male:
[Ref: Fortuner, (1987).]
Species reported from Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America.
Baujard, P., P. Castillo, M. Doucet, B. Martinu., D. Mountport. 1994. Taxonomie studies on the genus Aorolaimus Sher, 1963 (Nemata : Hoplolaimidae). 1. Bibliographie analysis and tentative key to speeies. Fundam. appl. Nernalol.17:103-115
Baujard, P., P. Castillo, M. Doucet, B. Martinu., D. Mountport. A. Ndiaye. 1991. Variabilite intra- et interspecifique des structures cuticulaires externes dans le genre Aorolaimus (Nemata : Hoplolaimidae). Syst. Parasit., 19: 195-213.
Fortuner, R. 1987. A reappraisal of Tylenchina (Nemata). 8. The family Hoplolairnidae Filip'ev, 1934. Revue N�matol., 10: 219-232.
Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Chromadorea      Rhabditida Rhabditida : Parasites of plants and insects. CABI Publishing, New York, NY.
Sher, S.A. 1963. Revision of the Hoplolaiminae (Nematoda) II. Hoplolaimus Daday, 1905. and Aorolaimus n. gen. Nematologica 9:267-295.