Pratylenchus crenatus, Loof 1960

Alvani, Somaye, Mahdikhani-Moghadam, Esmat, Rouhani, Hamid & Mohammadi, Abbas, 2016, A checklist of the family Pratylenchidae Thorne, 1949 from Iran, Zootaxa 4079 (2), pp. 179-204 : 186

6. P. crenatus Loof 1960

Syn: P. pratensis apud Thorne 1949

P. clavicaudatus Baranovskaya & Haque 1968

Associated plants and localities. Tea (Golestan) and wheat (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer–Ahmad). References. Pourjam, E. et al., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 1998, pers. com; Abdollahi 2010. Remarks. The Iranian population of Pratylenchus crenatus (Abdollahi 2010) closely corresponds to the

original description (Loof 1960). It is characterized by having a labial region with three annuli, lateral fields with

six lines; outer ones strongly crenate, inner lines interrupted, long postvulval uterine sac, small spermatheca, and a

conoid tail with distinctly annulated tip.