However, the morphometrics for several characters (a, c’, stylet, tail length, and hyaline tail part) of J2s showed a smaller range than the originally described population. The 18S rDNA sequences from isolates 11-30688 (1968 bp sequenced) and 11-30365 (1987 bp sequenced) had 99% identity with an isolate from a golf course in Pinal County, Arizona (JN241837, 609 bp sequenced) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/JN241837). This is the first record of M. graminis from turfgrasses in NC and SC.