Filenchus cylindricus

(Fig. 1 J–M)

Measurements. See Table 1.

Remarks. The type population of F. cylindricus was first described as Tylenchus cylindricus from natural grassland adjacent to wheat fields near Presho and Winner, South Dakota, and Holbrook, Nebraska, by Thorne & Malek (1968). Elmiligy (1971) described another population from loamy sand around roots of Zea mays in Iowa as T. hageneri . Raski & Geraert (1987) synonymized T. hageneri with T. cylindricus and transferred both species to the genus Filenchus . This species has also been recorded from Bulgaria (Katalan-Gateva & Tsoneva 1977), Romania (Dobrin & Rosca 1996), Turkey (Erdogus et al. 2010) and Pakistan (Erum & Shahina, 2010). In the present study, F. cylindricus was found in samples from a bermudagrass tee in Horry County, SC. The morphological characteristics fit well with the description by Zeidan & Geraert (1991), but the morphometrics showed smaller body length and a value in females than in the described populations (Zeidan & Geraert 1991). This is the first record of F. cylindricus from turfgrasses in SC.