Diploscapteroides Rahm, 1928

Sudhaus, Walter, 2023, An update of the catalogue of paraphyletic ‘ Rhabditidae’ (Nematoda) after eleven years, Soil Organisms 95 (1), pp. 95-116 : 103

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25674/so95iss1id312
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10880915
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scientific name	Diploscapteroides Rahm, 1928
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Diploscapteroides Rahm, 1928 View in CoL

syn. nov. Quercorhabditis Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013 :

Q. rajouriensis Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013

The species Q. rajouriensis shares apomorphic characteristics with Diploscapteroides like heavily sclerotised and arched cheilorhabdions and anterior bursal papillae shifted postcloacally, and like its sister group Cephaloboides has spicules with a dorsal thorn and a ventral prong proximally, and its adults are ensheathed as they retain the cuticle of the last juvenile stage.

Type species: Diploscapteroides brevicauda Rahm, 1928

Six valid species were listed in catalogue 2011. Here two new species are added.

• D. persicus Ghaemi, Pourjam, Álvarez-Ortega, Pedram & Atighi, 2015 View in CoL – Golestan province, northern Iran; from rotten wood in the forest.

• D. rajouriensis ( Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013) View in CoL comb. n. – Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India; from inside a hollow cavity in the trunk of an oak tree ( Quercus leucotrichophora View in CoL ).