Xiphinema pachtaicum (Tulaganov, 1938; Kirjanova, 1951)

(Fig. 6 F–H; Table 4)

Distribution

It was collected in 2016 and 2017 fromIran, East-Azarbaijan province, Sufiyan, Roodghat area (GPS coordinates: N 38°22′ 10′′, E 46° 07′ 26′′, altitude 1808 m a.s.l.), from the rhizosphere of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) .

Remarks

This species is widely distributed in the rhizosphere of different plants in agricultural lands and reported from several localities in the world including Africa, America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Little is known

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about its role as a plant pathogen and it has not been recorded as a vector of plant viruses. Mojtahedi et al. (1980) reported X. pachtaicum for the first time from vineyards in Iran; later on, it was obtained from different localities in the country from the rhizosphere of different plants. The Iranian specimens fit, morphologically and morphometrically, well to earlier descriptions of the species (Fadaei et al., 2003; Getaneh et al., 2015; Lazarova et al., 2016).