Delatylus andersoni

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Rev 02/23/2024

 Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Female:

• Body of young female vermiform to and straight.
• Lateral fields raised with 10-12 lines at mid-body.
• Lip region moderately high, continuous with body contour.
• Head with six sectors; four submedian and two smaller and lateral.
• Oral aperture elongate.
• Stylet tylenchoid with three distinct knobs sloping posteriorly; cone slightly shorter than  shaft, with 4 to 5 guiding rings (one or two on the cone, three always on the shaft).
• Esophagus neotylenchoid: without a median bulb, and glands free in the body cavity; pharyngo-intestinal junction a cardia located immediately posterior to the nerve ring.
• Excretory pore posterior to the nerve ring.
• Intestinal lumen widening immediately after the esophago-intestinal junction; rectum broad.
• Female reproductive system of monodelphic, prodelphic; spermatheca absent; vulva a transverse slit; vagina directed anteriorly.

Ref: Yu et al. (2018)