Obama nungara Carbayo, Álvarez-Presas, Jones & Riutort, 2016

Suárez, Daniel, Pedrianes, Juan Ramón & Andújar, Carmelo, 2022, DNA barcoding reveals new records of invasive terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in the Macaronesian region, Zootaxa 5129 (3), pp. 447-450 : 448

Obama nungara Carbayo, Álvarez-Presas, Jones & Riutort, 2016

Material examined: PORTUGAL: Madeira: Ribeiro Bonito , 32.810373°N, - 16.937081°W, 795 m, 7.IX.2019, 1 ex. (GenBank accession number OM 019327 ), C. Andújar leg., found in a laurel forest soil sample . SPAIN: Canary Islands, Gran Canaria: Tenteniguada , 27.975184°N, - 15.529326°W, 1010 m, 14.IV.2019, 5 exx. (GenBank accession number OM 019325 & OM 019326 ), D. Suárez leg., found under a plastic mulch of a strawberry ( Fragaria sp. ) plantation .

This species is native to South America ( Argentina and Brazil), and has been introduced in several countries of Europe ( England, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal, including Madeira, and Azores) ( Carbayo et al. 2016; Justine et al. 2020; Lago-Barcia et al. 2020; Mori et al. 2022). Here it is reported for the first time for the Canary Islands. The presence of this species in Madeira was published in Justine et al. (2020) as a personal communication without data regarding locality or collection date. Thus, this record confirms the presence of the species in Madeira. Sequences from Madeira and the Canary Islands match to the ‘network 3’ of Lago-Barcia et al. (2019), which includes sequences from Spain, Portugal, and Argentina, as well as sequences from Italy ( Mori et al. 2022), France and Belgium ( Justine et al. 2020) ( Figure 1A ).

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FIGURE 1. Maximum-likelihood tree of invasive terrestrial flatworms, based on COI sequences. Bootstrap values are presented only for main clades. Countries are indicated after GenBank accession number. Red: specimens sequenced in this study. A. Caenoplana coerulea tree. B. Endeavouria septemlineata tree. C. Obama nungara tree.