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Males:
- Body cylindrical, gradually tapering to anterior
- Cephalic region bluntly rounded.
- Cuticle yellowish brown, finely annulated posterior to
amphidial fovea.
- Lateral alae present from posterior end of pharynx to
cloacal region, 3.5-5.5 um wide, with rows of pores on
both sides.
- Somatic setae short and sparse.
- Cephalic region cuticle smooth, with six inner and six
outer labial papillae and four stout cephalic sensilla.
- Amphidial fovea loop-shaped, with double contour
formed by surrounding thickened cuticle.
- Buccal cavity with one large dorsal tooth; withou
ventrosublateral teeth.
- Stoma surrounded posteriorly by a pharyngeal
collar
- Pharynx muscular with posterior bulb subdivided
into three well regions by cuticularised constrictions of
lumen.
- Nerve ring at 30-35% of pharynx length from anterior.
- Secretory-excretory pore posterior to nerve ring.
- Cardia small, muscular.
- Monorchic; testis outstretched testis on left of
intestine.
- Two isometric spicules, slender, ventrally curved with
thick cuticularised lamina and cephalated capitulum with
internal shaft.
- Gubernaculum canoe-shaped, parallel to spicules, without
apophyses.
- Six to eight pairs of rounded postcloacal papillae at
regular intervals to near tail tip.
- Tail conical, 1.7-2.3 cloacal body diam. long.
- Three caudal glands at tail, opening through a spinneret
Ref: Gharahkhani et al. 2021
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