FAMILY                      Heterorhabditidae Poinar, 1976 [Description; Adams & Nguyen 2002 p.21; Diagnostic; Baker & Capinera 1997 p.196]
GENUS                              Heterorhabditis Poinar, 1976 [Diagnostic; Stock, Griffin & Burnell 2002 p.103; Tangchitsomkid & Sontirat 1998 p.351; Adams & Nguyen 2002 p.26]
                                   [=Chromonema Khan, Brooks & Hirschmann, 1976:161]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis amazonensis Andalo, Nguyen & Moino, 2006:855 [Brazil; Host unknown]
TYPE SPECIES                            Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar, 1976 [ Redescription; Ivanova & Danilov 1995 p.219]
                                        [=Heterorhabditis argentinensis Stock, 1993:103] [host Graphognathus in Coleoptera; ref?]
                                        [=Chromonema heliothidis Khan, Brooks & Hirschmann, 1976] [Poinar, Thomas and Hess 1977]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis baujardi Phan, Subbotin, Nguyen & Moens, 2003:371 [Host unknown]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis brevicaudis Liu, 1994:268 [host Insecta, English p. 271]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis downesi Stock, Griffin & Burnell, 2002:97 [Host unknown]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis floridensis Nguyen, Gozel, Koppenhofer & Adams, 2006:4 [Florida; Host unknown]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis hambletoni (Pereira, 1937):215 [Brazil; placed Poinar 1976; species inquirendum; host Gasterocercodes braziliensis]
                                        [=Rhabditis hambletoni Pereira, 1937]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis hoptha (Turco, 1970) [species inquirendum]
                                        [=Neoplectana hoptha Turco, 1970]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar, G. K. David & H. David, 1992 [authors?; Redescription; Anis, Shahina, Reid & Maqbool 2000 p.16]
                                        [=Heterorhabditis hawaiiensis Gardner, Stock & Kaya, 1994] [ref?]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis marelata Liu & Berry, 1996:48 [host unknown; Redescription; Stock 1997 p.457; marelatus?]
                                        [=Heterorhabditis hepialius Stock, Strong & Gardner, 1996:588] [syn. Stock 1997 p.457; host Hepialis californicus in Lepidoptera; ref?]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis megidis Poinar, Jackson & M. Klein, 1987
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis mexicana Nguyen, Shapiro-Ilan, Stuart, McCoy, James & Adams, 2004:233 [Host unknown]
TYPE SPECIES                            Heterorhabditis poinari Kakulia & Mikaia, 1997:457 [locality not given, Host Oryctes nasicornis (Coleoptera)]
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis taysearae Shamseldean, Abou El-Sooud, Abd-Elgawad & Saleh, 1996
SPECIES                                 Heterorhabditis zealandica Poinar, 1990