Review of the balantine genus Udeina Michaelsen, 1910 with descriptions of six new species in South Africa (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Acanthodrilinae)
Author
Plisko, Jadwiga Danuta
text
African Invertebrates
2004
2004-12-31
45
1998
287
287
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.7911385
2305-2562
7911385
Udeina stuckenbergi
Zicsi, 1998
Figs 24–25
Udeina stuckenbergeri
Zicsi, 1998: 69
[lapsus calami; Art. 32.5.1 of
International Code of
Zoological
Nomenclature
, 1999].
Udeina stuckenbergi
Zicsi, 1998: 69
[presently corrected].
Material
examined:
Holotype
MNSA
/Olig.00536 and
two juvenile
paratypes
NMSA
/ Olig.02690,
Eastern Cape
:
16 km
from
Stutterheim
(
32º32'S
:
17º29'E
) off
Road
358,
Mr Warren’s
farm, at approx.
1000 m
, on bank of small stream approx.
10 cm
depth in moist soil,
19 January 1990
,
JDP
& B.
R
. Stuckenberg.
Remarks: The external and internal characters accord with Zicsi’s description. This species differs notably from congeners in having spermathecae in segment 9, their pores located in intersegmental furrow 8/9, and only one pair of seminal vesicles. Also the shape of spermathecal ampulla and diverticulum are specific (
Figs 24–25
). The relationships between
U. stuckenbergi
and
U. montanus
are uncertain.
An error in the species name occurred in the original description (
Zicsi 1998
). The name ‘
stuckenbergeri
’ should have been ‘
stuckenbergi
’.
Zicsi (1998: 69)
clearly dedicated the species to Dr B.
R
. Stuckenberg, Director
emeritus
of the Natal Museum, when he wrote: ‘
Die neue Art wird zu Ehren des Sammlers Prof. Dr. B.
R
. Stuckenberg, dem damaligen Direktor des Natalmuseums, benannt
’. In accord with the
International Code of
Zoological Nomenclature
, 1999, Art. 32.4 and Art. 32.5, the mistake is corrected here.