- Medium sized nematodes.
- Lip region elevated, truncate, offset by slight depression.
- Amphids with stirrup-shaped fovea.
- Anterior region of vestibule distinctly thickened.
- Odontostyle strongly sclerotised, massive with prominently
furcate base. Guiding ring ‘double’.
- Odontophore simple, rod-like, with slightly thickened
base.
- Esophageal expansion gradual, dorsal esophageal gland nucleus
small, nucleolus almost at level of or slightly posterior to level
of its orifice, first pair of subventral gland nuclei at some
distance from each other, nucleus of second gland of first pair
exceptionally large; second pair of subventral gland nuclei normal.
- Cardia conoid.
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