EKTAPHELENCHOIDES WINTERI N-SP (NEMATODA, EKTAPHELENCHIDAE) FROM WOODFLY LARVAE XYLODIPLOSIS SP (DIPTERA, CECIDOMYIDAE)

Ektaphelenchoides winteri n. sp., adults and juveniles, were found att ached by their styler to the integument of wood-fly larvae (Xylodiplos is sp.) that had emerged from freshly cut timber. Males have prominent spicules in which the apex to rostrum distance is greater than from t he rostrum to the distal tip; the tail has an offset terminal, tubular shaped, mucro 4-11 mu m long. Males are 540-764 mu m long and females 993-1350 mu m long; their stylet is without basal knobs, 19-26 mu m l ong. The nematode intestine contents, particularly in the posterior in testinal sac of the female, were pink in colour corresponding with the pink haemolymph of the fly larvae.