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Female: 

• No cyst stage.  Body globose with short neck.  
• Cuticle of medium thickness, whole body annulated, with modified pattern at anal-vulval region.  D-layer absent.  Subcrystalline layer present.  
• Vulva median; vulval lips not protruding.
• Eggs either deposited or retained in body.  

Male: 

• Body twisted, short (under 0.6 mm).  
• Lateral field with four lines.
• Spicules short (under 30 um), slightly curved, obliquely directed.
• Tail short, hemispherical.  
• No cloacal tubus.  
• Phasmids punctiform, subterminal.  
• No male metamorphosis within second-stage cuticle.

Second-stage juveniles:

• Lateral field with four lines. 
• Esophageal glands filling body cavity.  
• Tail conical, of medium length, with half-length, hyaline, terminal part.  
• Phasmids with or without lens-like structure. 
        
  [Ref: Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner,  (1988).]