Eremidrilus Fend & Rodriguez, 2013

Fend, Steven & Rodriguez, Pilar, 2020, New Eremidrilus species (Clitellata: Lumbriculidae) from western North America Part 1, species with two spermathecal segments, Zootaxa 4809 (1), pp. 111-131 : 112-113

Genus Eremidrilus Fend & Rodriguez, 2013

Type species: Eremidrilus elegans Fend & Rodriguez, 2003

Diagnosis: Small or medium-sized worms with a filiform proboscis. Body wall unpigmented and bearing secondary annuli. Posterior lateral blood vessels absent. Nephridia absent from preclitellar segments. Testes paired in both IX and X. One pair of ovaries in XI. One pair of elongate-cylindrical or club-shaped atria in X, each with one pair of functional vasa deferentia, serving funnels on 9/10 and 10/11. Male pores usually on broad, folded porophores posterior to ventral chaetae in X, on or slightly lateral to chaetal lines. Spermathecae paired in XI or in both XI and XII. Spermathecal pores posterior to chaetae, with transverse position ranging from ventral chaetal lines to lateral lines.

Included species:

Eremidrilus allegheniensis ( Cook, 1971)

Eremidrilus artzaini n. sp.

Eremidrilus coyote Fend & Rodriguez, 2003

Eremidrilus elegans Fend & Rodriguez, 2003

Eremidrilus felini Fend & Rodriguez, 2003

Eremidrilus gilita n. sp.

Eremidrilus humboldti n. sp.

Eremidrilus montanensis n. sp.

Eremidrilus ritocsi Fend & Rodriguez, 2003