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Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Tylenchidae Tylenchinae
Miculenchus Andrassy, 1959 Synonyms: Neomalenchus (Siddiqi, 1979)
Morphologically unique among the family Tylenchidae in having zigzag margins of the annuli, the lateral fields with two sharp longitudinal ridges and the absence of caudal alae in the males (Panahandeh et al., 2019).
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Female:
Refer to subfamily diagnosis (Tylenchinae).
Male:
Ref: Geraert (2008)
The genus is rarely reported. Species have been described from central Europe and Iran.
Geraert, E. 2008. The Tylenchidae of the world: identification of the family Tylenchidae (Nematoda). Gent, Academia Press: 540 pp
Panahandeh, Y., E. Pourjam, S. Alvarez-Ortega, F.J. Afshar and M. Pedram. 2019. New observations on Miculenchus Andrassy, 1959 (Nematoda: Tylenchidae) with descriptions of two new and one known species from Iran. Nematology 21:937-956.