Allolobophoridella Mršić, 1990 emend. Csuzdi & Zicsi 2003

Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta, 2010, Megadrile earthworm taxa introduced to South African soils (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Ocnerodrilidae), African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 289-289 : 296

Genus Allolobophoridella Mršić, 1990 emend. Csuzdi & Zicsi 2003

Two species Allolobophoridella eiseni and Allolobophoridella parva accredited to this genus are morphologically much alike, undoubtedly differing in the histology of their muscles. Unfortunately, no histology was conducted on the material collected in RSA, and it is possible that it may be qualified differently. Both species were recorded under various synonyms.

Allolobophoridella eiseni ( Levinsen, 1884: 241)

Known from Atlantic Oceania Islands, the Himalayas, European countries, the UK and Ireland, and North and South America. Probably introduced to RSA with imported plants and trees; reported by Ljungström (1972) and Horn et al. (2007) from a few distantly located sites: Cape Peninsula (Kirstenbosch and Table Mt, Brockenhurst, Queens’s Bower) (WC); Grotebosh, Drakensberg North escarpment (LP); noted in NMSAD from Qudeni State Forest and Karkloof Benvie Farm near Pietermaritzburg (KZN); and Newlands Forest in Cape Peninsula (WC). Found in patches of foreign plantations set in indigenous forests. Lives under and in fallen logs, rotten wood, un- der bark and in moist litter. Found with lumbricids Dendrobaena cognettii , D. octaedra , Aporrectodea caliginosa , A. rosea , Lumbricus castaneus , L. rubellus , juvenile anthodrilids Dichogaster sp. , Parachilota sp. , and the endemic microchaetid Tritogenia lunata Plisko, 1997 .

Allolobophoridella parva (Eisen, 1874: 46)

Described from Mount Lebanon, USA. Broadly distributed where climatic and ecological conditions allow. In RSA reported by Michaelsen (1899 a, 1913 a, 1914), Sciacchitano (1960), Reinecke & Ryke (1969), Ljungström (1972) from: Port Elizabeth (EC); Table Mt, Wynberg Cave, and Heidelberg (WC). New data in NMSAD refer to: nurseries in Pretoria (GP) and Hilton (KZN); experimental field at Cedara Agriculture College, and Impendle Nat. Res. (KZN). Lives under decayed bark, between grass roots, in moist litter, and under pot plants in greenhouses. Once noted together with Aporrectodea longa ( Reinecke & Ryke 1969) .