| Female: Similar to Pratylenchus
in general shape and size.
Secondary sexual dimorphism strongly marked.
Deirids
absent.
Two female genital branches equally developed (diovarial,
amphidelphic) or, more rarely, posterior branch more or less reduced,
degenerated and nonfunctional.
Female lip area low, not offset; by SEM, lateral sectors narrow,
but expanded posteriorly on succeeding lip annules; submedial
sectors completely fused together and with the labial
disc.
Esophageal
glands in line, with long dorsal overlap of the
intestine.
Esophago-intestinal valve not well developed.
Tail long (c'=2.4), tapering to terminus rounded or almost pointed.
Phasmids
at mid-tail, or slightly anterior.
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