Management Preplant nematicides. Anterior esophagus narrow, cylindrical, posterior part a shorter but much wider, muscular, cylinder that abuts the intestine. Amphids large, pouch-like, but with minute apertures opening at the base of the lip region. A prominent single guide ring located around the anterior half of the odontostyle. Vulva about mid body with short, paired, opposed gonads with reflexed ovaries.
Tails vary from short bluntly rounded to conoid.
Juveniles with two odontostyles, the second replacement one just behind and in line with the functional one. References Jacobs, P.J.F. and J. Heyns. Kolodge, C.M., J.D. Radewald, and F. Shibuya. A revision of the host range of Longidorus africanus from the Imperial Valley in southern California. Radewald, J.D., J.W. Osgood, K.S. Mayberry, A.O. Paulus, and F. Shibuya.