Parachilota photodilus ( Beddard, 1897 )

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2012, An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae), Zootaxa 3458, pp. 4-58 : 36

Parachilota photodilus ( Beddard, 1897)

Acanthodrilus photodilus Beddard, 1897: 343 .

Acanthodrilus photodilus: Reynolds & Cook 1976: 155 ; ZMH. Chilota photodilus: Michaelsen 1900: 148 ; 1913a: 512; 1913b: 53. Chilota photodilus f. typicus Michaelsen 1913b: 54.

Chilota photodilus f. castaneus Michaelsen 1913b: 54.

Parachilota photodilus: Pickford 1937: 238 ; Reynolds & Cook 1976: 155; Zicsi 1998: 63; HNHM.

Type locality. WC, ‘Knysna Forest, in and under rotten wood, leaves, & c.’ ( Beddard 1897).

Remarks. This species is recorded by Beddard (1897), Michaelsen (1900, 1913a, b,) and Zicsi (1998: 63) under the names ‘ photodilus ’, ph. typicus ’, or ‘ ph. castaneus ’ from a number of sites in the south-eastern coastalbelt in Western and Eastern Cape, and KZN. Pickford (1937: 238) under the heading ‘ Parachilota photodilus ( Beddard, 1897) ’ gives a diagnosis of the species and a key to subspecies, based on distinctions between the shape of penial setae and the spermathecae. The subspecies P. photodilus photodilus and P. photodilus convolutus are then described in detail. Syntypes: ZMH V-7828, V-7835. Other material: NMSA.Olig.00450 (from Knysna, identified by Michaelsen, with the KZNatal Museum old accessing number ‘0470’); HNHM AF/2541, AF/2542, AF/2560, AF/2589, AF/2515.