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

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scientific name	Geogenia quaera (Plisko, 2003)
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Microchaetus quaerus: Plisko 2003: 286 View in CoL .

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 GoogleMaps .

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 .)