Description of Pratylenchus elamini Zeidan and Geraert, 1991 from Iran

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1 Lecturer, Plant protection department Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan

2 plant protection department, university of Zanjan

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Our population identified by Geraert key (2013) as Pratylenchus elamini and agree well for most of the morphometrics and morphological aspects with the original description. This species has been originally described from Sudan by Zeidan and Geraert (1991). Rashno Bone Abbasi et al. (2018) only mentioned to Pratylenchus elamini name in list of identified species associated with citrus orchards in Dezful and Andimesk. In present study this species identified in rhizosphere of grass in Ijroud, Zanjan province and described for the first time from Iran.

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Rashno Bone Abbasi, Z., Mahdikhani Moghadam, E. and Baghaee Ravi, S. (2018). Species of root lesion nematode in citrus in Dezful and Andimeshk. 23rd Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 27-30 Aug, Gorgan. 844-845.
Zeidan, A.B. & Geraert, E. (1991). Pratylenchus from Sudan, with the description of two new species (Nemata: Tylenchida). Revue de Nematologie 14, 261-275.
Geraert, E. (2013). The Pratylenchidae of the world- Identification of the family Pratylenchidae (Nematoda: Tylenchida). Gent, Academia Press, 430 p.
Iranian Journal of Plant Pathology
Volume 56, Issue 1
August 2020
Pages 119-123

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