Microchaetus microchaetus (Rapp, 1849)

Jadwiga Danuta Plisko, 2006, A systematic reassessment of the genus Microchaetus Rapp, 1849: its amended definition, reinstatement of Geogenia Kinberg, 1867, and erection of a new genus Kazimierzus (Oligochaeta: Microchaetidae), African Invertebrates 47 (1), pp. 31-56 : 38

Microchaetus microchaetus (Rapp, 1849)

Lumbricus microchaetus: Rapp 1849: 142 ; Perrier 1881: 239; Benham 1886 a: 418; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 136.

Microchaetus microchaetus: Michaelsen 1900: 451 [partim]; Brinkhurst & Jamieson 1971: 739; Plisko 1991 b: 300; 1992: 340; 1998: 252; 1999: 271 [redescription and taxonomic validation]; 2003: 281.

Anteus microchaetus: Perrier 1872: 49 .

Anteus gigas: Horst 1891: 77 .

Microchaeta microchaetus: Perrier 1881: 239 [invalid emendation of Microchaetus ].

Lumbricus microchaeta: Beddard 1884: 570 ; 1886 a: 63 [invalid emendation of microchaetus ].

Microchaeta ? microchaeta ?: Vaillant 1890: 185.

Antaeus microchaetus: Vaillant 1890: 185 [invalid emendation of Anteus ]; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 136.

Rappia ? microchaeta: Vaillant 1890: 186 ; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 60.

Microchaeta rappi: Beddard 1895: 669 .

Microchaetus microchaetus f. typica: Michaelsen 1910: 158 ; 1918: 317.

Microchaetus microchaetus var. typica: Michaelsen 1913 a: 537 .

Microchaetus microhaetus [lapsus]: Pickford 1975: 23.

The collection site was merely cited by Rapp as ‘ vom Cap ’; This caused disputes

(Beddard 1884, 1886 a, b; Michaelsen 1910; Plisko 1991 b, 1999) as to whether the type

locality was situated in the eastern district of Western Cape, or a southern part of Eastern

Cape. Beddard (1886 b) and Michaelsen (1899 a, 1910), commenting on the identity of

rappi , proposed synonymising it with microchaetus , and suggested an occurrence of

both species also on the Cape Peninsula. However, records of braunsi , decipiens and

rappi from Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown and Avontuur, suggest that microchaetus

possibly was found originally in the eastern part of Western Cape or in a southern area

of Eastern Cape.