Meloidogyne paramali n. sp. (Nematoda: Meloidogyninae) and First Report of M. marylandi in maple and yacca tree from Japan Author Gu, Jianfeng Ningbo Key Laboratory of Port Biological and Food Safety Testing, Ningbo Customs Technology Center (Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Science Technology Academy), Ningbo, Zhejiang 315100, P. R. China jeffgu00@qq.com Author Fang, Yiwu Ningbo Key Laboratory of Port Biological and Food Safety Testing, Ningbo Customs Technology Center (Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Science Technology Academy), Ningbo, Zhejiang 315100, P. R. China Author Ma, Xinxin Ningbo Zhongsheng Product Testing Co., Ltd, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315100, P. R. China Author Shao, Baolin Technical Center of Chengdu Customs, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China Author Zhuo, Kan Laboratory of Plant Nematology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, P. R. China text Journal of Nematology 2023 2023-04-19 55 1 1 18 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jofnem-2022-0036 journal article 298909 10.2478/jofnem-2022-0036 f79d8f8c-0c7a-4327-81d4-baba5e85503c 2640-396X PMC11382614 37143485 12175678

Table 2. Morphometrics of J2 of Meloidogyne marylandi and other populations. All measurements are in micrometer and in the form: mean ± s.d. (range).

	Japan on Podocarpus macrophyllus	Japan on Panicum crus-gallia	Israel on Avena strigosab	USA on Zoysia japonicac
aAraki, 1992. bOka et al., 2003. cJepson and Golden, 1987.
n	14	100	-	20
L	381.7 ± 20.7	392.3 ± 22.05	442.9 ± 13.5	395.1 ± 12.5
	(351.7–418.4)	(338.6–449.3)	(396.0–445.5)	(367.8–411.8)
Body width	13.9 ± 0.6	15.7 ± 0.44	14.8 ± 0.8	16.2 ± 0.8
	(12.8–14.7)	(14.2–16.6)	(13.4–15.9)	(14.8–17.7)
Stylet length	12.5 ± 0.6	12.9 ± 0.45	11.0 ± 0.4	10.8 ± 0.3
	(11.5–13.4)	(11.5–14.1)	(10.4–11.9)	(10.6–11.2)
Stylet base to	14.5 ± 0.4	15.4 ± 0.46	14.6 ± 0.7	–
head	(13.7–15.0)	(13.7–16.6)	(13.4–15.9)	–
DGO	3.1 ± 0.3	2.5 ± 0.26	2.6 ± 0.4	2.4 ± 0.1
	(2.8–3.6)	(1.8–3.1)	(2.2–2.9)	(1.8–2.9)
Head end to	55.3 ± 2.4	45.7 ± 7.3	52.8 ± 1.9	51.3 ± 1.4
metacorpus valve	(51.0–57.9)	(30.1–66.3)	(51.2–54.9)	(49.5–54.3)
Tail length	52.7 ± 1.5	63.7 ± 2.73	63.1 ± 3.1	57.9 ± 1.6
	(49.5–54.0)	(53.6–70.5)	(60.4–69.3)	(55.5–60.2)
Tail hyaline portion	11.2 ± 1.2 (9.5–13.5)	12.3 ± 1.1 (9.3–14.7)	12.4 ± 0.9 (9.9–13.4)	11.5 ± 0.6 (10.0–12.4)
a	27.4 ± 1.2	25.0 ± 1.3	28.8 ± 1.7	24.5 ± 1.0
	(26.4–30.2)	(22.3–28.4)	(26.2–31.3)	(22.9–26.4)
c	7.2 ± 0.3	6.2 ± 0.29	6.8 ± 0.4	6.8 ± 0.2
	(7.0–7.9)	(5.5–7.1)	(6.3–7.6)	(6.4–7.3)