Description of Pratylenchus elamini Zeidan & Geraert, 1991 from Iran

Description of Pratylenchus elamini Zeidan & Geraert, 1991 from IranManouchehr Hosseinvand, Shahin Ganjkhanloo and Ali Eskandari Our population identified by Geraert key (2013) as Pratylenchus elamini and agree well for most of the morphometrics and morphological aspects with the original description. This species has been originally described from Sudan by Zeidan & Geraert (1991). Rashno Bone Abbasi et al., (2018) only mentioned to Pratylenchus elamini name in list of identified species associated with citrus orchards in Dezful and Andimesk. In present study this species identified in rhizosphere of grass in Ijroud, Zanjan province and described for the first time from Iran.