Genus Chiloplectus
Andrássy, 1984
Diagnosis (Emended)
Plectidae. Body length between 0.8 and 1.6 mm. Cuticle
strongly annulated or tiled. Head strongly offset by a constriction,
lip region narrower than the neck, lips strongly separated, globualar or
discoidal, on their inner side with one small setose projection each.
Cephalic setae obliquely directed. Amphids plectoid, level with the middle
of stoma. Mouth cavity with separate, short protostom. Oesophagus
plectoid, bulb with cardial process. Excretory pore at level of the
posterior half of pharynx. Hypodermal glands absent. Pair of
coelomocytes one body diameter posterior to cardia. Vulva equatorial,
gonads paired, opposite. Vagina with or without epiptygmata.
Testes two, spicules paired and slightly asymmetrical, gubernaculum with
posterior process. One to three sclerotised tubular supplements present.
Tail of both sexes similar, conoid, ventrally curved, 2.5 -6.5 amal body
diameters long. Three caudal glands present, opening on a spinnneret
on tail tip.
Type species: Chiloplectus andrassyi (Timm, 1971), Andrássy,
1984
= Plectus globilabiatus apud Andrássy,
1963 (nec Kirjanova, 1958)
= Plectus andrassyi Timm 1971
= Plectus telekii Mulk & Coomans, 1978
(Description- Holovachov, 2000)
