Hormogaster samnitica, Cognetti de Martiis, 1914

Marchán, Daniel Fernández, Gérard, Sylvain, Hedde, Mickaël, Rougerie, Rodolphe & Decaëns, Thibaud, 2022, An updated checklist and a DNA barcode library for the earthworms (Crassiclitellata, Oligochaeta) of Corsica, France, Zoosystema 44 (17), pp. 439-461 : 446

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a17
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:77B40AEE-0398-4D6D-B880-A1A09169ABF7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7149990
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scientific name	Hormogaster samnitica
status

Treatment

Hormogaster samnitica L3

MATERIAL COLLECTED. — France • 2 adult specimens, 1 juvenile specimen; Haute-Corse, Cagnano; 42°52’33”N, 9°26’6”E; 150 m a.s.l.; 31.III.2021; T. Decaëns, D. Fernández Marchán leg.; Eco & Sols ( BOLD Sample ID: DFM-0126), MNHN ( BOLD Sample ID: DFM-0127, DFM-0137) GoogleMaps .

REMARKS

Hormogaster samnitica lirapora Bouché, 1970 and Ho. samnitica lirapora var. magna were described from Corsica ( Bouché 1970), but magna is an unavailable name according to ICZN rules (infrasubspecific name established after 1962). A more detailed study will be necessary to clarify the relationships between these lineages and those found in Sardinia, Elba and mainland Italy ( Novo et al. 2015), as well as to identify clear morphological differences that would allow to describe them as distinct species. Conservatively, and given the uncertainties regarding the identity of the different genetic lineages found in our work, we prefer to refer only to Ho. samnitica in this checklist until further taxonomic work can clarify the taxonomy of this complex.