Parachilota karkloofi Zicsi, 1998

Plisko, J. D., 2008, New South African Acanthodrilinae earthworm species, with new data for some earlier known members of the genus Parachilota (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae), African Invertebrates 49 (2), pp. 21-21 : 31

Parachilota karkloofi Zicsi, 1998

Fig. 11

Parachilota karkloofi: Zicsi 1998: 65 .

Type material examined: KwaZulu-Natal: Holotype NMSA /Olig.00246, Karkloof Nat. Res. (29°18'S: 30°13'E), at ca 1260 m, high part of mixed Podocarpus forest edge, in litter and first layer of soil, 22.ii.1989, JDP & BRS . Paratype NMSA /Olig.00246a, collected with holotype .

Distribution: This species is known only from the type locality in KZN. An assessment of its range must await the discovery of additional material.

Comments: The present study of the type material housed at the Natal Museum (Plisko 2006) allows this species to be assigned to the bilobate species-group. The spermathecal ampulla is ovoid, duct elongated with two separated, slightly chambered lobes ( Fig. 11 ).

Figures

Figs 11, 12. Spermathecae of Parachilota species with bilobate diverticulum: (11) P. karkloofi Zicsi, 1998, holotype, 400×; (12) P. minimus Zicsi & Pajor, 1992, 500×. Abbreviations: A – ampulla, BDv – bilobate diverticulum.