Plant-parasitic nematodes of the subfamily Telotylenchinae (Nematoda: Dolichodoridae) from southern provinces of Iran

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Among plant-parasitic nematodes collected from fields, orchards, meadows and grasslands of the primarily seven southern provinces of the country viz. Fars, Sistan and Baluchistan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Kohgiloyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kerman and Bushehr; 13 species of the subfamily Telotylenchinae of the genera Bitylenchus, Neodolichorhynchus, Paratrophurus, Trophurus and Tylenchorhynchus were identified morphologically. Three species, N. phaseoli, Trophurus impar and Tylenchorhynchus qasimii, are new records for Iranian nematofauna. Description, morphometric data and line drawings provided for the above three species, as well as three other poorly known telotylenchids in Iran. Furthermore, Tylenchorhynchus variannus considered as a junior synonym of T. clarus here.

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