Timmiella goaense gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Dorylaimida: Belondiroidea) from Western Ghats of India

Timmiella goaense gen. n., sp. n. closely related to genera Swangeria Thorne, 1939, Qudsiella Jairajpuri, 1967 and Timmus Goseco, Ferris and Ferris, 1976 is described and illustrated based on specimens collected from Western Ghats of India. The new genus is characterized by its broadly rounded, continuous lip region; odontostyle short, delicate with indistinct lumen and aperture; guiding ring thick belt-like, conspicuous; anterior part of pharynx slender, a narrow tube; expanded part of pharynx fusiform, enclosed by sinistrally spiral muscular sheath; cardia isthmus-like (spatulate) with intestine attached to its posterior end; female genital system amphidelphic; vulva transverse; male with dorylaimoid spicules; tail long filiform, similar in both sexes.