Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2009
Aulolaimus oxycephalus de Man, 1880 is redescribed with observations on the lectotype male and on specimens from England. The definition of the family Axonolaimidae Sch. Stek. and de Coninck, 1933 is emended to include reflexed ovaries. Aulolaiminae n.subfam. is proposed, within the Axonolaimidae, for the genera Aulolaimus de Man, 1880 and Pseudoaulolaimus Imamura, 1931. A. meyli Loof, 1961 is considered to be a species inquirenda. Pandurinema Timm, 1957, is made a synonym of Aulolaimus and further observations are made on A. filiformis (Timm, 1957) n.comb.