“…Turkey is geographically consisting of seven regions and each region has different climatic conditions. As a result of this, in recent decades, plant parasitic nematode fauna of the Turkish has been studied by several authors and important nematode species were reported (Ökten, 1982;Elekçioğlu et al, 1994;Elekçioğlu, 1996;Kepenekçi & Ökten, 2000a, b, c;Kepenekçi & Öztürk, 2000;Ökten et al, 2000;Erdal et al, 2001;Gözel & Yıldız, 2015;Mıstanoğlu et al, 2015;Muşdağı & Gözel, 2015;Aydınlı, 2018). Also, Kepenekçi (2014) published a detailed list of 240 nematode species of plant parasitic nematodes belonging to 56 genera of Tylenchida from Turkey.…”