Leeches from Chiapas, Mexico, with a new species of Erpobdella (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae)
Author
Tessler, Michael
Author
Siddall, Mark E.
Author
Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro
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American Museum Novitates
2018
2018-03-12
2018
3895
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/3895.1
journal article
10.1206/3895.1
0003-0082
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Diestecostoma octannulata
Moore, 1946
Figures 10–11
The presence of five eyespot pairs arranged in a parabolic arc (first four pairs on contiguous annuli and two annuli separating fourth and fifth pair), complete somite eight annulate (16 + 1/2 annuli between gonopores) is consistent with the description of
Diestecostoma octannulata
Moore, 1946
. Found in a rotten tree under the bark. Terrestrial leech; presumably non-blood-feeding (macrophagous). New country record; new state record; new locality record:
Mexico
, Volcán Tacaná,
la Caracola
(
15°06′19.39″N
,
92°05′47.27″W
;
2452 m
),
one specimen
collected July, 25, 2015, by Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa (
CNI 15
). GenBank cox1 barcode sequence accession:
MG
821605
.