Pratylenchus coffeae, (Zimmermann 1898), 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 : 185

4. P. coffeae (Zimmermann 1898) Filipjev & Schuurmans Stekhoven 1941

Syn: P. musicola (Cobb 1919) Filipjev 1936

P. mahogani (Cobb 1920) Filipjev 1936

P. brassicae (Shahina & Maqbool 1996) Siddiqi 2000 n. syn.

(Pourjam et al., 1997) 8♀: L= 515 (460–570) µm; a = 27 (22–32); b = 5.5 (5.1–6.3); b' = 3.1 (2.5–3.6); c = 19.8 (16.5–22); c' = 2.1 (1.9–2.3); St = 16 (15–18) µm; V = 81 (80–82.5)

3♂: L= 445 (420–480) µm; a = 30 (28–32); b = 5.1 (4.7–5.4); b' = 3.4 (3.1–3.7); c = 16–17; c' = 2.6 (2.5–2.7); St = 15–16 µm; Spicules = 19 (17–21) µm

Associated plants and localities. Banana (Sistan and Baluchestan), Crocus sativus (South Khorasan), tea (Gilan), tomato (North Khorasan) and wheat (Alborz).

References. Kheiri 1972; Pourjam et al. 1997 [F]; Pourjam et al. 1999b [F, M]; Tanha Maafi, Z. et al., Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, 2006, pers. com; Fadavi Khalajlo, Gh. et al., Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, 2010, pers. com; Majd Taheri, Z. et al., Islamic Azad University of Damghan, Damghan, 2010, pers. com [M], Majd Taheri et al. 2013 [F, M]; Mahdikhani–Moghadam & Alvani 2013.

Remarks. The Iranian population of P. co f f e ae (Pourjam et al. 1997) shows wide intraspecific variation as mentioned by Taylor & Jenkins 1957, Loof 1960, Román & Hirschmann 1969 and Rashid & Khan 1976. It has wide variation in the shape of the spermatheca (rounded, oval to somewhat rectangular and filled with rounded sperms), and tail (hemispherical, smooth terminus, and broadly rounded to somewhat truncate or indented), and is similar in most taxonomic characters and measurements to the Iranian population of P. loosi (Pourjam et al. 1997) . Species identification is based on c´, tail shape and body width at the level of phasmid (PBW).