Resampling Bouché’s historical localities reveals three new species and helps identifying a new genus of earthworms (Oligochaeta, Hormogastridae and Lumbricidae) in Southeastern France Author Gérard, Sylvain Eco & Sols, INRAE, IRD, CIRAD, SupAgro Montpellier, Campus SupAgro, Bâtiment 12, 2 place Viala, F- 34060 Montpellier cedex 2 (France) Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, 1919, route de Mende, F- 34293 Montpellier cedex 5 (France) sylvain. gerard @ ens-paris-saclay. fr, sylvain. gerard 57 @ gmail. com (corresponding author) sylvain.gerard@ens-paris-saclay.fr & sylvain.gerard57@gmail.com Author Marchán, Daniel Fernández CEFE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, 1919, route de Mende, F- 34293 Montpellier cedex 5 (France) & Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution Department, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida de Séneca, 2 Ciudad Universitaria E- 28040 Madrid (Spain) danifermch@gmail.com Author Navarro, Alejandro Martinez Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution Department, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida de Séneca, 2 Ciudad Universitaria E- 28040 Madrid (Spain) alejma21@ucm.es Author Hedde, Mickaël Eco & Sols, INRAE, IRD, CIRAD, SupAgro Montpellier, SupAgro, Bâtiment 12, 2 place Viala, F- 34060 Montpellier cedex 2 (France) hedde@inrae.fr Author Decaëns, Thibaud CEFE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, 1919, route de Mende, F- 34293 Montpellier cedex 5 (France) thibaud.decaens@cefe.cnrs.fr text Zoosystema 2023 2023-12-05 45 23 749 768 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2023v45a23.pdf journal article 281520 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a23 3f666a8b-4246-43ae-9afe-ce53163f4dc5 1638-9387 10275978 9115B736-A081-44B8-A5D6-DF5D45185BC3 Genus Vignysa Bouché, 1970 TYPE SPECIES . — Lumbricus teres Dugès, 1828: 289 . DIAGNOSIS . — Small-to-medium-sized species without cutaneous pigmentation. Prostomium prolobous. Transversal furrows on segments I-II. Setae closely paired. Male pores in 15/16 with well-developed porophores. Spermathecal pores in 9/10, 10/11, simple. Nephridial pores aligned. Clitellum between XIV and XXIX (1/2 XXX). Two gizzards in VI-VII. Typhlosole lyre- or Y-shaped. Two pairs of spermathecae, disc-shaped or tubular. Two pairs of seminal vesicles in XI-XII. Nephridial bladders fish-hook shaped with caeca from the first segments. TABLE 4. — Main morphological characters distinguishing the newly described species Flabellodrilus luberonensis Gérard, Decaëns & Marchán , n. gen., n. sp. , Allolobophora delitescens Gérard, Decaëns & Marchán , n. sp. and their closest relatives Flabellodrilus bartolii bartolii ( Bouché, 1970 ) n. comb. , Allolobophora icterica ( Savigny, 1826 ) , Allolobophora dubiosa ( Örley, 1881 ) , Allolobophora monchicana Trigo, Mascates, Briones and Diaz Cosin, 1990 .
Flabellodrilus Flabellodrilus
luberonensis bartolii bartolii Allolobophora Allolobophora Allolobophora Allolobophora
Characters n. sp. n. comb. delitescens n. sp. icterica dubiosa monchicana
Length 70-100 mm 60-120 mm 70-98 mm 70-90 mm 120-250 mm 50-117 mm
N. segments 187-353 280-394 200-211 140-200 120-303 130-158
Weight 0.85-1.24 g 0.85-1.49 g 0.64-1.2 g 0.3-1.33 g 2.96-3.47 g 0.74-0.96 g
Pigmentation Absent, Brown-yellow, Absent Absent Dark green to Absent
dark spots dark spots greenish brown
Papillae XI-XII, XXVI- X, XI, XXXIII-XLIV XXXVII, (XXXVIII), XI, XLIV, XLV Unknown XXII, XLVII, XLVIII
XXVIII, XXXIV XXXIX
Spermathecal 9/10, 10/11 9/10, 10/11 8/9, 9/10, 10/11 (7/8)8/9, 9/10, 8/9, 9/10, 10/11 (8/9) 9/10, 10/11
pores double double simple in c 10/11 simple in c simple in c simple in c
Clitellum XXXII-XLII (XLIII) (XXXIII) XXXIV-XLIII (XXXV) XXXVI–(XLVI) (XXXIII) XXXIV-XLIII (XXXVI) XXXVII- (XXXVII)XXXVIII(XXXIX)-
(XLIV) XLVII (XLIV) XLVII (XLVIII) XLVII(XLVIII,XLIX,L)
Tubercula XXXV-XL (XXXV) XXXVI-XLI XL-XLVI (XXXV) XXXVI-XLII (XLIII) XLIV-XLVII (XXXIX)XL(XLI)-
pubertatis (XLIII) (XVIII) XLVI(XLVII,XLVIII,XLIX,L)
Typhlosole Four lamellae Four lamellae Five lamellae Bifid Bifid Bifid
Nephridial Sigmoid, bag-like Sigmoid, bag-like U-shaped U-shaped U-shaped U-shaped
bladders distension distension
Seminal vesicles XI, XII XI, XII IX-XII IX-XII IX-XII IX-XII
Spermathecae Double, oval in Double, oval in Simple, intraseptal Simple, intraseptal Simple in 8/9, Simple in (8/9), 9/10,
X, XI X, XI in 8/9, 9/10, 10/11 to intracoelomic, 9/10, 10/11 10/11
in (VIII), IX, X, XI
Vignysa callasensis n. sp. Vignysa teres 50 km Vignysa vedovinii FIG . 8. — Distribution of Vignysa callasensis Gérard, Decaëns & Marchán , n. sp. ( star ) and its closest relatives ( circles ) in Southern France. All species of the genus Vignysa Bouché, 1970 are represented. Credits: Google 2022 . INCLUDED SPECIES . — Vignysa teres ( Dugès, 1828: 289 ) ; Vignysa vedovinii Rota, 1994: 27 ; Vignysa callasensis Gérard, Decaëns & Marchán , n. sp. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION . — This genus currently comprises three species occurring in Southeastern France , from Montpellier (Hérault, Occitanie) to the north of Fréjus (Var, Occitanie), and from the Mediterranean Sea to the 44th north parallel ( Fig. 8 ).