Division of Nematology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012.
* Part of the thesis submitted by the senior author for the award of Ph.D degree to P.G. School, I.A.R.I., New Delhi in 1979.
Spatiocephalus venustrus gen. n. sp. n. collected from soil around roots of mango at Datala, district Buldana, Maharashtra is described, which is distinctive by having smooth margins of cervical expansion with its single cuticle (without mid-dorsal and mid-ventral invaginated inner cuticle), serrated lateral rims of cervical expansions and non-denticulate valvular apparatus in basal bulb and circular amphid.
