Drawida pellucida pellucida ( Bourne, 1894 )

Tiwari, Nalini, Paliwal, R., Rashid, Azhar & Yadav, Shweta, 2020, Checklist of earthworm species (Oligochaeta) of the North Eastern Region of India, Zootaxa 4772 (2), pp. 277-305 : 281

14. Drawida pellucida pellucida ( Bourne, 1894)

Moniligaster pellucida Bourne, 1894: 363 .

Drawida pellucida (Bourne) . Michaelsen 1900: 118.

Drawida pellucidus typica (Bourne) . Michaelsen 1910: 50.

Drawida pellucida typica (Bourne) . Stephenson 1923 (in part, excluding specimens from Upper Rotung (Arunachal Pradesh): 150; Aiyer 1929: 48.

Drawida pellucida pellucida (Bourne) . Blakemore 2007: 7.

T. Udhagamandalam (formerly Ootacamund). D. Meghalaya: Mawthadraishan Peak ( Kharkongor 2018). R. Stephenson (1914a) reported the species doubtfully from Arunachal Pradesh, based on a single immature specimen. Gates (1972: 250) included this specimen in his account of D. kempi but emphasized that it was “too immature to warrant more than a guess at identification.” There is a large distribution gap between the subspecies’ occurrence in southern India and, as presently reported, in the NER region. The inclusion of this taxon in the present list is therefore tentative; it is based on Kharkongor (2018) and requires confirmation.