Rhabditidae sp. 1

(Figs 4 A, B; Table 2)

The three dead females (ZIHU 3325-3327) obtained were infested and colonized by fungi inside their bodies (Fig. 4 A, B).

Head rounded with no constriction, lateral lips with small amphidial aperture. Stoma cylindrical; cheilostom not sclerotized, glottoid apparatus isomorphic, metastom with two warts. Pharyngeal corpus with muscular median bulb. Reproductive system amphidelphic; vulva transverse, located near midbody. Rectum short, 0.9–1.1 abd length. Tail conical, 6.0– 7.3 abd length.

The specimens resemble Caenorhabditis (Osche, 1952) Dougherty, 1953 in general features of the body.

Characters: a,b,c, de Man's ratios; V, position of vulva as a percentage of the body length from anterior end. * Value in ZIHU 3325 (L= 849).