MONILIGASTRIDAE, Claus, 1880

Blakemore, Robert J., Cho, Joo-Lae & Park, Tae Seo, 2012, Six exotic terrestrial earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megadrilacea: Moniligastridae, Lumbricidae, Ocnerodrilidae & Megascolecidae) newly added to Korean species biodiversity list *, Zootaxa 3368, pp. 300-304 : 300

Family MONILIGASTRIDAE

Drawida cf. barwelli ( Beddard, 1886)

NIBR IV0000245078. Jeollanam-do, Gurye-gun, Masan-myeon, Naengcheon-ri, (N35º12’41.0” E127º28’51.8”) 37m AMSL. Collected by R.J.Blakemore, J.-L. Cho and Hanna Bae, 19 th Jan. 2012 behind tea shop and beside fallow rice paddy drain ditch under frozen soil cap at ca. 15cm depth. Two specimens with regressed clitella, both coiled in diapause in small soil ‘cells’; here fixed and preserved in 80% ethanol (EtOH) before dissection and tissue sampling for DNA analysis (pending). Both specimens agree with Moniligaster beddardii Rosa, 1890 especially as redescribed by Gates (1972: 246) that, although having (three or) four gizzards in 15–18, as in present specimens, is currently maintained in synonymy of D. barwelli that more often has two to four gizzards in some of 12–16 (allowing for Beddard’s original segment miscount). Michaelsen (1900: 116) first synonymized these two names and their subsequent accounts have been variously intermingled— Blakemore (2010b: 142–154, figs. 1–6) and Blakemore & Kupriyanova (2010) provide fuller details.