Drawida jeholensis Kobayashi, 1940

Blakemore, Robert J., Lee, Seunghan & Seo, Hong-Yul, 2014, Reports of Drawida (Oligochaeta: Moniligastridae) from far East Asia, Journal of Species Research 3 (2), pp. 127-166 : 147-148

17. Drawida jeholensis Kobayashi, 1940

Drawida jeholensis Kobayashi, 1940: 268 , fig. 1. [From Chihfen, Manchoukuo (= Chifeng , Inner Mongolia). Types unknown].

Description. Whitish grey. Size 52-66 mm by up to 3.5 mm with 153-160 segments Prolobous. Setae small and closely paired (ab=cd). Dorsal pores absent. Clitellum 9-14. Nephropores somewhat in line with c or more dorsal. Spermathecal pores minute in posterior of 7 near to c-lines. Male pore minute on blunt porophore in 10 posteriorly overhanging 10/11. Female pores paired on 12 near 11/ 12 in ab-lines. Genital papillae present, as discs in some of 7-11 and in 7/8 with glands internally.

Septa 5/6-8/9 thick. Last hearts in 9. Spermathecal ampulla rounded with convoluted duct to lateral side of large atrium in 7/8 with an accessory gland in 7. Testis sacs on 9/10 with short vas deferens entering body-wall just medial to prostates that are small and rugose externally. Ovarian chamber in 10/11/12 with eggsacs extending to 16-20. Gizzards two or three in 12-13 or 11-13.

Remarks. This species was said similar to both D. japonica and D. koreana supposedly differentiated from the former by its male porophore, and from the latter, which it most closely resembles, mainly by the longer and thinner spermathecal duct and by body colour. The spermathecal pores in 7 appear unique for this species.