Scherotheca Bouché, 1972

Marchán, Daniel F., Decaëns, Thibaud, Díaz Cosín, Darío J., Hedde, Mickaël, Lapied, Emmanuel & Domínguez, Jorge, 2020, French Mediterranean islands as a refuge of relic earthworm species: Cataladrilus porquerollensis sp. nov. and Scherotheca portcrosana sp. nov. (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 701, pp. 1-22 : 10-11

Genus Scherotheca Bouché, 1972

Type species

Scherotheca gigas Dùges, 1828 .

Diagnosis

Lumbricinae of large to very large size, post-clitellar trapezoidal section. Pigmentation brown to dark brown. Prostomium epilobous, closed. Longitudinal furrows in the peristomium. Nephridial pores “en solfège” (irregularly distributed). Spermathecal pores at least in two intersegments, between 9/10 and 13/14, or 13/14 and 15/16, sometimes multiple. Anterior septa strongly thickened. Male pores in ½ 15, usually with porophores. Gizzard in 17–20 (21, 22). Typhlosole pinnate. Two or four pairs of seminal vesicles in (9, 10) 11, 12.