Hemicriconemoides macrodorus n. sp. with observations on two other species of the genus (Nematoda: Criconematidae)

Abstract

Hemicriconemoides macrodorus n. sp. is described and illustrated from a bisexual population collected in a natural habitat at Santa Elena, Jaén, southern Spain. The new species falls into the 'group 2', based on lip patterns (Decraemer & Geraert, 1992), which contains 13 other species characterised by a cephalic region with an offset, raised, narrower oral disc, followed by broader head annuli. The main distinctive characters of the new species are: lip region truncate, very long stylet (90-100 μ m), long body 548-750 μ m, R = 127-148, conical tail, VL/VB = 1.0-1.5, spined juvenile cuticular ornamentation (multispined scales, indented at their edges) arranged in ten alternate rows, and male lateral field with four incisures. Morphometric data, illustrations and brief descriptions are presented for an Italian population of H. ortonwilliamsi Ye & Siddiqi, 1994, while, for the first time, morphometric data and illustrations are given for the male and the juvenile of H. alexis Vovlas, 1980.