Diphtherophora tenera Ivanova, 1980

Ghaderi, Reza, Hesar, Abas Mokaram, Karegar, Akbar & Pereira, Tiago José, 2020, Molecular phylogeny of Diphtherophora de Man, 1880 (Nematoda: Diphtherophoridae), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4851 (2), pp. 371-385 : 377

Diphtherophora tenera Ivanova, 1980

( Fig. 3 D, H, K, N , Table 2 )

In our study, this population has a smaller body and spear than the type population recovered from Tadjikistan ( Ivanova 1980) . On the other hand, morphological characters displayed comparable values, in agreement with another population also reported from Iran ( Ghaderi et al. 2017). This population was recovered from turf grass in the campus of Shiraz University, at Eram Square, Shiraz, Fars province, Southern Iran .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Diagnostic characters of Diphtherophora caudata females (A, E) and males (I, L); Diphtherophora geraerti females (B, F) and males (J, M); Diphtherophora perplexans females (C, G); and Diphtherophora tenera females (D, H) and males (K, N), all recovered from Iran. A-D, I-K, anterior end. E-H, L-N, posterior end. (Scale-bars: A-N = 10 µm).