Males:
- Generally similar to female but with narrower body. Cuticular
annulation hardly seen.
- Procorpus less thick than in females,
- Monorchic, testis outstretched, sometimes reaching close to basal
pharyngeal bulb, spermatocytes in two rows.
- Spicules ventrally arcuate, with minute processes at the base of
manubrium and anteriorly pointed cuticle parts within the lamina.
- Gubernaculum simple and crescent-shaped.
- Bursa enveloping 63.2% (33.3-74.4%) of tail length.
Ref: Hashemi et al., 2022
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
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Females:
- Body vermiform, greater diamter in individuals from plant tissues
than from soil.
- Cuticle finely annulated. Lateral fields narrow, occupying
7.6-20.5% of body width; usually with six incisures.
- Head with two or three fine annuli, not offset.
- Cephalic skeleton moderately developed.
- Stylet well developed for the genus, conus 31.1-54.3% of its
length, knobs distinct and rounded.
- DEGO 0.7-1.8 um posterior to the stylet knobs.
- Procorpus wide; median bulb oval and muscular, with distinct
valve, isthmus cylindrical, more slender and rather shorter than the
procorpus. Nerve ring surrounding isthmus.
- Hemizonid about 2-4 cuticular annuli long, in the vicinity
of secretory-excretory pore (S-E). Deirids at level of S-E pore.
- Basal pharyngeal bulb usually elongate and cylindrical to
pyriform, offset from intestine or with slight overlap over intestine
- Monodelphic-prodelphic, ovary outstretched and sometimes reaching
median pharyngeal bul.
- Spermatheca elongated and filled with large and rounded
sperms. Uterus quadricolumellar.
- Vagina 21.7-47.1% of vulval body width (VBW).
- Post-vulval uterine sac (PUS) 3.2 (2.3-5.6) times VBW,
- Tail thick conical, narrowing gradually after anus or
abruptly before the end, with variable terminus, usually pointed,
sometimes rounded; seldom mucronate.
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