Hemocyte encapsulation reactions of infective juveniles of two Iranian isolates of the entomopathogenic nematodes, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar (Rhabditina: Heterorhabditidae) and Steinernema feltiae Filipjev (Tylenchina: Steinernematidae), were compared in the economic pest Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), and the greater wax moth, Gall...

in order to identify the plant parasitic nematodes of pulse fields in northern khorasan province, 41 soil and root samples were collected from rhizosphere of pisum sp., phaseoulus sp., lens sp. during 2011 and 2012. the nematodes were extracted by combined sieving and centrifugal-flotation method of jenkins (1969) and transferred to glycerin by using method of de grisse (1969). the permanent sl...

to identify the faunal parasitic nematodes of mazandaran, guilan and ardebil provinces, roughly 30 soil samples were collected from the rhizosphere of forest trees during 2005-2009. nematodes were extracted from soil through centrifugal flotation technique. the extracted nematodes were transferred to pure glycerin using common methods. permanent slides were made and nematodes identified as base...

four tylenchid species, namely, aglenchus agricola, malenchus exiguus, psilenchus curcumerus, and p. terextremus are reported from iran. the iranian population of a. agricola is characterized by 542-659 µm long body, 10-12 µm long stylet, excretory pore at 70-87 µm distance from anterior end, prominent lateral fields, with four lines, tail of 170-198 long, and rare males with 15-20 µm long spic...