Udeina kinbergi ( Michaelsen, 1899 )

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2004, Review of the balantine genus Udeina Michaelsen, 1910 with descriptions of six new species in South Africa (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Acanthodrilinae), African Invertebrates 45 (1998), pp. 287-287 : 300

Udeina kinbergi ( Michaelsen, 1899)

Yagansia kinbergi Michaelsen, 1899 a: 443 ; 1900: 157; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 123.

Yagansia Kinbergi : Ude 1905: 424.

Holoscolex kinbergi: Michaelsen 1907: 32 .

Udeina kinbergi: Michaelsen 1910: 53 ; Zicsi 1998: 68.

Udeina kinbergi : [partim] Pickford 1937: 416.

Holoscolex reichei: Pickford 1937: 416 .

Udeina kinbergi: Ljungström 1972: 105 [misidentification of reichei ].

No type or other material was examined.

Discussion: A single specimen, not clitellate, broken into two pieces, was described as the first species of Udeina . Due to its poor condition, knowledge of its external and internal characters is still unsatisfactory. Differing assessments of relationships of this species with U. reichei have been published ( Ude 1905; Michaelsen 1907; Pickford 1937; Ljungström 1972), uncertainty remains, but validity of kinbergi is now accepted.

The type locality recorded by Wahlberg as ‘Caffraria’, and later translated by Michaelsen (1899 a) as ‘Kafferlandet’, is difficult to identify. Pickford (1937), following advice of Dr O. Lundblad from Stockholm who was working on the material collected by Wahlberg, has stated: ‘Caffraria means South East Africa’. My investigation does not exclude the possibility that kinbergi was collected near the reichei type locality as suggested by Zicsi (1998), but does not confirm this. The other acanthodriline species Parachilota wahlbergi ( Michaelsen, 1899 a) , also recorded in Wahlberg’s collection as collected in ‘Caffraria’, is known from Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KZN.