An annotated checklist of the South African Acanthodrilidae (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae: Acanthodrilinae, Benhamiinae)
Author
Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta
text
Zootaxa
2012
3458
4
58
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.282224
3c9db890-c1df-4340-8be1-8e5cd631aeed
1175-5326
282224
Parachilota bergvleitanus
(Michaelsen, 1908)
Chilota bergvleitanus
Michaelsen, 1908: 37
.
Chilota bergvleitanus
:
Michaelsen 1913a
: 503
, 1913b: 50
.
Chilota laeviseta
Michaelsen, 1913a
: 501
.
Chilota bergvlietanus
[printing error for
bergvleitanus
]:
Reynolds & Cook 1976
: 78
;
Hartwich & Kilias 1989
: 254
= ZMB Verm.; ZMH.
Parachilota bergoleitanus
[
lapsus for
bergvleitanus
] BMNH.
Parachilota bergvleitanus
:
Pickford 1937
: 319
; SAMC.
Type
locality
.
WC
, Cape Flats, Farm Bergvleit.
Distribution
. Known from the eastern slopes of Table Mtn, extending its occurrence to the south-eastern Cape Peninsula. Recorded: Table Mtn, Platteclip Gorge at ca.
600 m
asl. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens near stream and behind Tea House (caught by twiddling sticks in the ground). Paradise Estate near Kirstenbosch. Newlands Forest oak woods below Lady Anne Barnard's ruined house. Edge of pinewoods by the path from Tokai to Constantia Berg. Roadside at
ca
. 1,6 km north of Witsands, among stones in very sandy soil. Roadside between Millers' Point and Simonstown, various sites and biotopes. Cape Flats, few sites.
Remarks
.
Syntypes
: ZMH V-6928; ZMB Verm. 4104, both under misspelled name
Chilota bergvlietanus
(sic!). Other material: BMNH 1938.7.1.1242–1290, numerous specimens from Pickford’s collection, with variable notes under misspelled name
bergoleitanus
. SAMC 123.
Pickford (1937: 322–324)
, after examination of material of
Ch
.
bergvleitanus
and
Ch
. laeviseta
identified and described by
Michaelsen (1913a: 503, 501)
considered both names as synonyms. The specimen from the Drakensberg Mount-aux-Sources identified by
Pickford (1927: 448)
as
laeviseta
after re-examination by
Pickford (1937: 313)
was transferred to
Parachilota wittebergensis
Pickford, 1937
.