Family Paurodontidae

                                 Revised 05/02/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Order Rhabditida

              Suborder  Tylenchina
       Superfamily  Tylenchoidea


         Paurodontidae (Thorne, 1941) Massey, 1967

 

Sometimes considered a junior synonym of the family Sphaerulariidae on the basis of morphological similarities and similar life cycles that include free-living and atages parasitic of tree-infesting insects (Mwamula et al., 2026).


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References

Massey, C.L. 1967. Nematodes associated with tree-infesting insects: Paurodontidae new family and Misticiinae new subfamily with a description of one new genus and four new species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 45: 779-786. DOI: 10.1139/z67-089

Mwamula, A.O., Bae, C-h., Kim, Y.S., Lee, Y-D., Lee, D.W. 2026. Bealius clavicaudatus n. sp. (Rhabditida, Paurodontidae), a new sphaerularioid nematode from South Korea. Nematology 28:229-242.

Thorne, G. 1941. Some nematodes of the family Tylenchidae which do not possess a valvular median bulb. The Great Basin Naturaist 2:37-85.

 

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