Five Species of Tylenchidae and Dolichodoridae (Nematoda: Tylenchoidea) from Iran

Abstract

During a survey, five known species of plant-parasi tic nematodes of the families Tylenchidae and Dolichodoridae (Tylenchomorpha: Tyl enchoidea) were collected and identified from several locations in Golestan, Guil an, Kurdistan, and Fars provinces. Paratrophurus kenanae, Tylenchus elegans and T. ritae , as new records for Iranian nematode fauna, with the two previously reported sp ecies Filenchus butteus and Tylenchorhynchus leviterminalis are illustrated and described. The similarity of several species of Paratrophurus with those of the closely related genus, Tylenchorhynchus , is also discussed. Keywords : Filenchus , Identification, Paratrophurus , Tylenchorhynchus , Tylenchus .