cadavers of invasive slugs in California. Phasmarhabditis papillosa is the type of the genus
and has not previously been reported from the Americas. Both species are characterised
based on morphology, morphometrics and molecular data. Molecular phylogenies were
inferred from concatenated DNA sequence alignments of nearly complete SSU and the D2-
D3 domains of the LSU rDNA. Phasmarhabditis californica n. sp. is characterised by a robust …