Diplocardia gatesi Murchie, 1965

Mcgee, Joseph M., Carrera-Martínez, Roberto, Callaham Jr, Mac A. & Snyder, Bruce A., 2024, New records of earthworms (Clitellata: Oligochaeta) from Georgia, USA, including eight new state records, Zootaxa 5437 (4), pp. 510-522 : 511

Diplocardia gatesi Murchie, 1965 : New state record

Towns Co.: (3) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 57’ 18” N, 83° 34’ 04” W, Rock Mountain fire, Burned Plot 5, soil monolith, 27 Mar 2018, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al .; (2) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 57’ 18” N, 83° 34’ 04” W, Rock Mountain fire, Burned Plot 2, soil monolith, 27 Mar 2018, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al. ; (1) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 57’ 18” N, 83° 34’ 04” W, Rock Mountain fire, Burned Plot 2, soil monolith, 11 Jul 2018, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al. ; (1) Chattahoochee NF, 34° 57’ 18” N, 83° 34’ 04” W, Rock Mountain fire, Burned Plot 4, soil monolith, 27 Mar 2018, Coll: BA Snyder, MA Callaham, et al.

Union Co.: (4) Near Rock Crk, Chattahoochee NF, 34.67788°N, 84.13324°W, Soil, MA Callaham, H Ikeda, 6 May 2011.

Previously recorded: N/ A. This species is previously known only from North Carolina .

Remarks. Specimens of D. gatesi reported here from Union Co. were collected as part of a study by Ikeda et al. (2020) examining the distribution and speciation patterns of two major North American native genera. These were not identified to species for that study. Later morphological confirmation resulted in the record reported here.