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	Raski (1962) 
	established the genus Gracilacus to differentiate 
	
	Paratylenchus species 
	with a stylet longer than 48 um.  
		
		Authorities remain split on the validity of 
	Gracilacus. Some retain it as a valid genus (e.g. Andrassy, 2007) while 
	others assign the Gracilacus species to 
	Paratylenchus (e.g. Nguyen et al., 2004, Ghaderi et al., 2014) (Ghaderi 
	et al., 2016), 
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