Healyella syriaca ( ROSA, 1893 )

Csuzdi, C., Pavlíček, T. & Mısırlıoğlu, M., 2007, Earthworms (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Criodrilidae And Acanthodrilidae) Of Hatay Province, Turkey, With Description Of Three New Lumbricids, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53 (4), pp. 347-361 : 355-356

Healyella syriaca ( ROSA, 1893)

Allolobophora syriaca ROSA, 1893: 461 .

Eophila atheca f. kosswigi OMODEO, 1952: 10 .

Dendrobaena syriaca : ZICSI 1973: 218.

Healyella syriaca : OMODEO & ROTA 1989: 173, OMODEO & ROTA 1991: 173, CSUZDI, ZICSI & MİSİRLİOĞLU 2006: 22.

Healyella syriaca var.: OMODEO & ROTA 1989: 174.

Healyella kosswigi : OMODEO & ROTA 1989: 174.

Material examined: Z/15068 three ex, Z/15069 two ex. Turkey, Hatay Province, near the road from Antakya to Samandağ, about five km from Samandağ, 36°08’N, 36°01’E, close to a river, deep soil sediments, surrounded by citrus orchards, leg. T. PAVLÍČEK, 13 April 2006. Z/15073 one ex. Turkey, Hatay Province, near the right bank of the Orontes River, about two km below the St. Simeon Monastery, 36°06’N, 36°02’E, partly limestone hills with small orchards and garrigue, leg. T. PAVLÍČEK, 13 April 2006. Z/15077 one ex. Turkey, Hatay Province, near the road Harbiye to Yayladağı, 36°05’N, 36°07’E, small wadi covered by Mediterranean garrigue with oak, Pistacia palaestina , Arbutus etc., leg. T. PAVLÍČEK 14 April 2006.

Remarks. H. syriaca is a Levantin–Anatolian species; the present specimens are completely identical with those occurring in Israel.