thelastomatid
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thelastomatid (plural thelastomatids)
- (zoology) Any member of the family Thelastomatidae of nematodes.
- 1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:
- Representatives of the Mermithidae are the most common nematode parasites of tettigoniids, however spirurids and more rarely, subulurids and thelastomatids, also occur in some members of this family.