Geogenia quaera (Plisko, 2003)

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2009, Pre-testical spermathecal pores and unusual setal arrangement in the South African endemic microchaetid earthworms of presumed Gondwanan origin (Oligochaeta: Microchaetidae), African Invertebrates 50 (2), pp. 237-237 : 249

Geogenia quaera (Plisko, 2003)

Fig. 12

Microchaetus quaerus: Plisko 2003: 286 .

Microchaetus querus [printing error]: Plisko 2006: 45.

Geogenia quera [printing error]: Plisko 2006: 45.

Type locality: South Africa: KZN, Hluhluwe Game Reserve Mbombe Forest (28 ° 03'15"S: 32 ° 03'12"E), at 484 m, forest valley. Known only from the type locality .

Material studied: Holotype NMSA /Olig.03659; 1 cl paratype NMSA /Olig.03664.

External and internal characters are in accord with species description. Location of spermathecal pores, although being difficult to trace, in 8/9 and 9/10, is known also in holandric distasmosa . Both species might be related, although differ in the shape and location of clitellum and tubercula pubertatis. (Compare notes under G. distasmosa .)

Figures

Figs 11, 12. Habitus and enlarged clitellar area of Geogenia distasmosa (11) and G. quaera (12). Scale bars = 1 cm.