title: Description of Tylenchorhynchus shimizui n. sp. from Paraguay and notes on T. leviterminalis Siddiqi, Mukherjee & Dasgupta from Japan (Nematoda: Tylenchida: Telotylenchidae).
abstract: A new species of Tylenchorhynchus Cobb, 1913 from Paraguay, T. shimizui n. sp., and T. leviterminalis Siddiqi, Mukherjee & Dasgupta, 1982 from Japan are described and illustrated. T. shimizui n. sp. is a monosexual species characterised by females with a medium-sized body, L=0.70-0.82 mm, stylet 18.4-20.8 microm long, a rounded lip region slightly set off from the body contours bearing six annules, oesophageal glands slightly overlapping the intestine laterally and a subcylindrical tail with a bluntly pointed smooth terminus. A population of T. leviterminalis associated with sugarcane from Japan is also described and compared with previous descriptions. This is the first record for T. leviterminalis in Japan. Spores of a Pasteuria species were observed filling the body-cavity of some specimens of T. leviterminalis.
authors.affiliation: National Agriculture Research Center, Kannondai 3-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8666, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Talavera
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizukubo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007564:Japan; D010239:Paraguay; D012987:Soil / Q000469:parasitology; D017187:Tylenchida / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D012987:Soil