Steinernema pui Qiu,  Zhao, Wu, Lv & Pang, 2011

Summary: Steinernema pui was recovered from a soil sample collected from Xiao-jie town, Jing-hong city, Xi-shuang-ban-na district in Yunnan province, the People’s Republic of China in December 2002. Both morphological and molecular evidence show congruently that S. pui belongs to the glaseri group. It can be separated from all described Steinernema species by a combination of morphological and morphometrical characters of adults and juveniles, including spicule and gubernaculum shape of the first generation males (spicule bearing an aperture on the tip and an irregular-shaped concave on ventral side of the lamina close to the tip; gubernaculum with a short needle-shaped cuneus); the tail and vulva shape of the first generation females (tail conoid and pointed with a mucron; vulva with a short double flapped epiptygma) and the body and tail length, distance from anterior end to excretory pore and to the base of pharynx of infective juveniles. This species can also be distinguished from other Steinernema species by DNA sequences of D2D3 and ITS regions of rDNA, and by negative results of cross-breeding tests with the closely related species S. longicaudum and S. guangdongense.