Pratylenchus neglectus, (Rensch 1924) Filipjev & Schuurmans Stekhoven 1941

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 : 188-190

16. P. neglectus (Rensch 1924) Filipjev & Schuurmans Stekhoven 1941

Syn: P. minyus Sher & Allen 1953

P. capitatus Ivanova 1968

P. neocapitatus Khan & Singh 1975

P. similis Khan & Singh 1975

P. g ot o hi (Mizukubo & Minagawa 1991) Pourjam, Kheiri, Geraert & Alizadeh 1999a

(Karegar et al. 1995) 8♀: L= 455 (420–535) µm; a = 27 (23–30); b = 5.3 (4.4–6.3); b' = 4.3 (4.1–5); c = 21 (16– 25); c' = 2.2 (1.8–2.6); St = 15–17 µm; V = 81 (77–84)

Associated plants and localities. Alfalfa (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Gilan, Golestan, Hamedan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan, Yazd and Zanjan), almond (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer–Ahmad and Zanjan), apple (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Gilan, Golestan, Kermanshah, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), apricot (Kerman), artemisia ( Fars), barley, (Ardabil and Lorestan), bean (Markazi and Sistan and Baluchestan), cereal (north and central provinces), chery (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Gilan, Golestan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), chestnut (Kermanshah), citrus (Gilan and Mazandaran), clover (Lorestan), corn (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), cotton (Ardabil, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), cucumber (East Azerbaijan and Kerman), grapevine (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Hamedan, Gilan, Golestan, Kerman, Markazi, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Qom, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), olive (Kerman), paprika (East Azerbaijan), pea (Ardabil, Gilan, Golestan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), peach (Ardabil), peanut (Alborz), pear (Ardabil, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), pine (Markazi, Qom and Tehran), pistachio (Kerman, Qazvin, Qom and Yazd), pomegranate (Kerman), potato (East Azerbaijan, Esfahan, Hamedan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer–Ahmad, Kordestan, Semnan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), rapeseed (Esfahan, Fars, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan and Tehran), sorghum (Ardabil, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), soybean (Alborz, Ardabil, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), strawberry (Kordestan), sugar beet (Ardabil, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamedan, Khuzestan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), sunflower (Ardabil, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), tea (Gilan and Mazandaran), tobacco (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan), tomato (Boshehr and East Azerbaijan), turnip (Kohgiluyeh and Boyer–Ahmad), vegetable (East Azerbaijan and Golestan), walnut (Hamedan, Kermanshah, Kordestan and Lorestan), watermelon (Alborz), wheat (Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Kermanshah, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer–Ahmad, Kordestan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, West Azerbaijan and Zanjan) and Ziziphus zizyphus (South Khorasan).

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Remarks. Pratylenchus neglectus was separated from P. gotohi Mizukubo & Minagawa 1991 by having a more posterior excretory pore (77 (72–85) vs 67 (63–74) Μm from anterior end), longer posterior uterine branch (5.4 (4.5–8.1) vs 3.7 (3.3–4.3) Μm), anterior position of the vulva (V = 81 (78.3–82.8) vs 82.2 (81.2–82.8)), higher stylet knobs (2.0–3.3 vs 1.7–2.0 Μm), lower m–value (47.8 (45.8–50.0) vs 50.7 (47.8–54.2)%), and number of tail annuli (17 vs 20). Pourjam et al. (1999a) studied several populations of P. neglectus from Iran and found that morphological and morphometric characters of these populations were similar to P. gotohi and therefore considered both species ( P. neglectus and P. gotohi ) as synonymous.