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Females: Body stout, 0.23 to 0.50 mm long, straight or curved ventrally to
form an open "C," bluntly rounded at both ends.
Labial region distinctly
set off from body with one large discoid basal annule, or with two
annules, the first large and discoid. Submedian lobes absent.
Stylet 50
to 89 µm
long.
Approximately 55 to 98 body annules, with scales arrayed
in 8 to 16 longitudinal rows at midbody. Scales flat, smooth and
rectangular, or semicircular or elaborately fringed with 7 to 10 setiform
projections or continuous fringe of dense comb-like spines.
Ref: Raski et al (1987, Geraert (2010) |