Pratylenchus pseudopratensis, Seinhorst 1968

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 : 191

19. P. pseudopratensis Seinhorst 1968

Syn: P. sefaensis Fortuner 1973

(Pourjam et al. 1997) 4♀: L= 508 (455–545) µm; a = 25.7 (23–28); b = 6.6 (5.5–7.6); b' = 4–5; c = 20.5 (16– 24.3); c' = 2.2 (1.7–2.8); St = 14.9 (14–15.5) µm; V = 77 (76–80)

Associated plants and localities. Alfalfa (Lorestan, North Khorasan and Razavi Khorasan), almond ( Fars, Kerman and Yazd), apple (East Azerbaijan), pea (Lorestan, North Khorasan and Razavi Khorasan), pistachio ( Fars, Kerman and Yazd), plum (Alborz), rapeseed (North Khorasan), sugar beet (Lorestan and West Azerbaijan), walnut (Gilan) and wheat ( Fars and Lorestan).

References. Pourjam et al. 1997 [F]; Pourjam, E. et al., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 1998, pers. com; Barooti, S. et al., Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, 2000, pers. com; Aliramaji, F. et al., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 2006, pers. com; Naseri, B. et al., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 2008, pers. com; Naseri et al. 2008; Ghaderi, R. et al., Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2008, pers. com [P]; Ghaderi et al. 2008; Majd Taheri, Z. et al., Islamic Azad University of Damghan, Damghan, 2010, pers. com [M], Majd Taheri et al. 2013 [M].

Remarks. Frederick & Tarjan (1989) pointed out that P. sefaensis Fortuner 1973 was not specifically compared with P. pseudopratensis . In fact, P. sefaensis can not be adequately separated from P. pseudopratensis , and is therefore considered a junior synonym of P. sefaensis (Castillo & Volvas 2007) . In Pourjam et al. 1997, this species was also considered as P. sefaensis . The Iranian population of P. sefaensis (Pourjam et al. 1997) closely corresponds to the original description (Fortuner 1973), but the lateral fields possesses four to six lines (vs four), and is sometimes structured as a wide band with a series of irregular lines similar to those of the Cameroonian population (Sakwe & Geraert 1994). Further, in some Iranian populations, the intestine overlaps the rectum.