Diporodrilus pilosus Bouché, 1970

Marchán, Daniel F., Navarro, Alejandro Martínez, Gérard, Sylvain, Decaëns, Thibaud & Novo, Marta, 2024, Ancient diversity within Diporodrilus (Crassiclitellata, Annelida) clarify the historical biogeography of Corso-Sardinian earthworms, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 24 (2), pp. 163-179 : 171-172

Diporodrilus pilosus Bouché, 1970

Studied material — Topotypes. France • 3 adult specimens, 4 juveniles; Corsica, Haute Corse, Sisco, Sisco; latitude/longitude: 42.810296 / 9.461780; elevation: 139 m asl; 31-Mar-2021; T. Decaëns, D. Fernández Marchán leg. (1 specimen); BOLD Sample ID: DFM-0101; deposited at MNHN; Corsica, Haute Corse, Sisco, Col San-Giovani; latitude/longitude: 42.822759 / 9.432619; elevation: 344 m asl; 31-Mar-2021; T. Decaëns, D. Fernández Marchán leg. (6 specimens); BOLD Sample ID: DFM-0375, DFM-0376, DFM-0377, DFM-0378, DFM-0379, DFM-0380; deposited at ECOSOLS .

Diagnosis. — Diporodrilus pilosus can be distinguished from Diporodrilus omodeoi and Diporodrilus bouchei by the position of the clitellum in segments (XXII) XXIII–XXXII (XXXIII), from Diporodrilus rotundus sp. nov, Diporodrilus minor sp. nov., Diporodrilus meridionalis sp. nov. and Diporodrilus telti sp. nov by the position of the last genital papillae in XXXIV and from Diporodrilus jorgei sp. nov. by the smaller average number of segments (136 vs. 170) and position of first paired celomic pores (11/12, 12/13 vs. 13/14) ( Table 2).

COI uncorrected average pairwise distances and topology of multilocus molecular phylogenetic trees supports the status of Diporodrilus pilosus as independent from other morphologically related species.