Chilota purcelli priesti Michaelsen, 1913

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2012, An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae), Zootaxa 3458, pp. 4-58 : 14-15

Chilota purcelli priesti Michaelsen, 1913

Chilota priesti f. typica Michaelsen, 1913a: 516.

Chilota priesti f. typica: Michaelsen 1913b: 54.

Chilota priesti f. minor Michaelsen 1913a: 519.

Chilota priesti f. minor: 1913b: 55.

Chilota priesti: Reynolds & Cook 1976: 158 ; ZMH.

Chilota purcelli priesti Michaelsen, 1913 : Pickford 1937: 511. Chilota purcelli priesti: Zicsi 1998: 71 ; BMNH.

Chilota purcelli priesti race priesti Pickford, 1937: 513 . Chilota purcelli priesti race minor Pickford, 1937: 513. Chilota purcelli purcelli trans. ad. priesti: Pickford 1937: 488 –489. Chilota purcelli priesti trans. ad. longinquus Pickford, 1937: 517.

Type locality. WC, Avontuur in the area of Uniondale.

Distribution. This subspecies is recorded from a number of localities in the coastal belt bordering the Western and Eastern Cape provinces. WC, Knysna Forest: Witte Fontein, dry sandy soil; Deep Walls Research Hill, nursery beds; Buffel's Nek veld with low bush ploughed for plantations. Knysna area: Belvedere, bank of pond near beach; Knysna, Veldschoen’s Drift, wooded ‘kloof’. Knysna-Avontuur road, various sites and biotopes. George area: The Wilderness (specimens collected from the wood sloping down to estuary). Riversdale Mts at ca. 150-450 m asl. Garcias Pass, near Riversdale, black sandy soil near stream. Avontuur, Uniondale area, mountains north of Heidelberg. Langeberg Mts: Duivel's Bosch, various sites at the bank of stream; Kolonies Bosch, by the stream above the woods. Pass between Calitzdorp and Ladismith. Buffelsjagts river near Zuurbraak in Swellendam area, loamy soil deposited by floods. Swellendam Mts at ca. 900–1500 m asl. EC, Humansdorp vicinity, Witte Els Bosch (recently burnt ground); Storms River in the litter.

Remarks. Pickford (1937: 511) redescribed Michaelsen’s Chilota priesti f. typica based on the syntype material from the type locality, marked SAMC 136. In the BMNH there is a tube marked 1938.7.1.2269 containing material from Avontuur and labelled ‘ Chilota priest ’ corrected to ‘ priesti ’ with a number SAMC 136, being possibly syntype material, donated by Pickford. Further syntypes: ZMH V-7838, 7839. Pickford (1937: 513) selected a sample ‘357’ (what it is now ‘SAMC 357’) as a syntype of a priesti race minor. Other material: BMNH 1938.7.1.2270, 1938.7.1.2322–2337, 1938.7.1.2271–2316 named ‘ priesti ’ with additional notes ‘race minor or typica ’.