Bursaphelenchus anamurius sp. n. isolated from wilted Turkish pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) wood isdescribed. The new species shares several characters with the hofmanni-group sensu Braasch (2001). It is characterisedby a body length of 633 (540-749) and 744 (638-867) for males and females,respectively, stout body (a = 29 in male and 27in female), stylet 14 long in both males and females, lateral field with three lines, length of postuterine branch one-third to one-half of the vulva to anusdistance, conoid female tail (c = 3.4) with a finely rounded or pointed terminus, very delicate andrelatively straight spicules 10 (9-11) m long with compact capitulum, broad, not distinctly offsetcondylus and strong rostrum with a more or less rounded tip lacking a cucullus, shovel-shaped bursaand the presence of seven caudal papillae. Bursaphelenchus anamurius sp. n. differs from other species of the hofmanni-group mainly by having smaller, unusually shaped spicules, shorter condylus andno cucullus. The new species can be differentiated from other Bursaphelenchus species morphologically and by means of ITS-RFLP patterns, particularly by digestion of the PCR product with RsaI, HaeIII, MspI, HinfI and AluI. © 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden. Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu, TÜBITAK S. Akbulut et al. extracted from a bee and from wood of P. nigra Arnold, P. sylvestris L. and P. pinaster Aiton. Bursaphelenchus ana- murius sp. n. was isolated from wood of P. brutia collected in Anamur-Mersin and Bergama- ? Izmir in 2005. This is the first report of an association of a Bursaphelenchus species with P. brutia in Turkey. In Greece, B. hellenicus Skar- moutsos, Braasch & Michalopoulou, 1998, B. leoni Bau- jard, 1980, B. sexdentati Rühm, 1960, and B. teratospic- ularis Kakuliya & Devdariani, 1965, were isolated from wood of P. brutia (Skarmoutsos et al. , 1998; Skarmoutsos & Skarmoutsos, 1999). Philis and Braasch (1996) found B. leoni in P. brutia in Cyprus. 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