Pratylenchus jaehni, Inserra, Duncan, Troccoli, Dunn, Dos Santos, Kaplan & Vovlas 2001, Inserra, Duncan, Troccoli, Dunn, Dos Santos, Kaplan & Vovlas, 2001

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 : 187

12. P. jaehni Inserra, Duncan, Troccoli, Dunn, Dos Santos, Kaplan & Vovlas 2001

(Divsalar et al. 2011) 9♀: L= 470 (403–533) µm; a = 24.2 (22.8–26.6); b = 5.7 (5–6.5); b´ = 3.9 (3.2–4.4); c = 21.6 (16.8–23.8); c´ = 2.3 (1.8–3.3); St = 14.5 (14–15) µm; V = 79.4 (78.6–80.1)

4♂: L = 505 (500–510) µm; a = 28.8 (27–30.4); b = 5.7 (5.6–5.9); b' = 4 (3.9–4.1); c = 19 (18.7–20.4); c' = 2.5 (2.3–2.6); St = 14.5 (14–15) µm; Spicules = 17.3 (17–17.6) µm

Associated plant and locality. Orange (Mazandaran).

References. Divsalar et al. 2011 [F], 2012.

Remarks. The Iranian population of P. jaehni (Divsalar et al. 2011) closely corresponds to the original description (Inserra et al. 2001). It is characterized by having a labial region with two annuli, lateral fields with four lines, longitudinal and interrupted striations present in central band, stylet≤15µm, oval spermatheca filled with sperm, hemispherical tail with rounded terminus and precence of males. One slide collected from Mazandaran (Noshahr and Chalus city) was kindly sent by the authors and examined in present study. The Iranian population was determined to be close to P. l oo s i and P. coffeae . It differs from these two species by the length of the stylet and stylet knobs (less than 15 and 2.7 µm respectively vs more than 15 and 2.7 µm), V factor (less than 79 vs more than 79), shorter overlapping of oesophageal glands vs longer in others and tail terminus rounded vs smooth in P. coffeae and pointed in P. loosi .