Parachilota warreni (Michaelsen, 1913)

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2012, An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae), Zootaxa 3458, pp. 4-58 : 43

Parachilota warreni (Michaelsen, 1913)

Chilota warreni Michaelsen, 1913c: 411 .

Chilota warreni : ZMH; BMNH.

Chilota (Parachilota) warreni [partim]: Reynolds & Cook 1976: 189. Parachilota warreni [partim]: Plisko 1991: 287.

Parachilota warreni: Pickford 1937: 348 ; Plisko 2006: 58, 2008: 34; Zicsi 1998: 64; NMSAD; BMNH; HNHM.

Type locality. KZN, Howick, in detritus near the Umgeni Falls.

Distribution. Species known from few distant sites in three provinces. KZN midlands: near Pietermaritzburg in Howick area. Farm ‘Camin’ between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown. Karkloof National Park under moss in Podocarpus forest. Drakensberg: Game Pass; Garden Castle, N-slope in seepage area, grassland with Themeda grass, herbs and few shrubs. EC: Several sites at coastal mountain range at Drakensberg Amatola footsteps: Hogsback, Auckland Forest, mixed riverine bush. FS: Ficksburg vicinity at 1850 m, bush vegetation.

Remarks. Holotype NMSA/Olig.00273. Syntypes: ZMH V-7521, V-7500; NMSA/Olig.00272. Other material: BMNH 1938.7.1.1368–1369, 1938.7.1.1370–1371 contains material mounted on slides; HNHM AF/ 2596, AF/3612; NMSA/Olig.00694.