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Female:
- .Body slender, slightly arcuate ventrally when heat relaxed.
- Cuticle with fine transverse annulations
- Lateral field with four incisures, the inner band narrower than
the outer bands.
- Cephalic region rounded, offset by a shallow constriction,
without a labial disc and with six equally sized lips not separated
by ribs.
- Cephalic papillae four at mid-position of lip region
height, labial papillae six surrounding the oral aperture.
- Amphidial apertures pore-like,
- Stylet slender, anterior conus about half of total, shaft with
three small swellings.
- Pharynx with cylindrical procorpus cylindrical, oval
metacorpus with central valve; cardia subcylindrical.
- Dorsal pharyngeal gland well-developed, slender, with three
visible nuclei, overlapping intestinal dorsally.
- Secretory/excretory pore almost opposite to the nerve
ring.
- Monodelphic, prodelphic; ovary outstretched with oocytes in a
single row, oviduct short,
- Spermatheca oval to oblong filled with amoeboid
- Vulva a transverse slit with a well-developed vulval flap
overlapping the posterior lip,
- Postuterine sac 63-125 um long (3.2-5.3 x vulval body diam)
- Anus distinct, well developed.
- Tail conical, ventrally curved, dorsally convex, lacking
tubercles,but with six to nine small projections at the tip of a
subventral stalk.
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