Description of Pratylenchus elamini Zeidan and Geraert, 1991 from Iran

Document Type : Short Report

Authors

1 Lecturer, Plant protection department Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan

2 plant protection department, university of Zanjan

Abstract



Our population identified by Geraert key (2013) as Pratylenchus elamini and agree well for most of the morphometrics and morphological aspects with the original description. This species has been originally described from Sudan by Zeidan and Geraert (1991). Rashno Bone Abbasi et al. (2018) only mentioned to Pratylenchus elamini name in list of identified species associated with citrus orchards in Dezful and Andimesk. In present study this species identified in rhizosphere of grass in Ijroud, Zanjan province and described for the first time from Iran.

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