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 photodilus ( Beddard, 1897 ) Acanthodrilus photodilus Beddard, 1897 : 343 . Acanthodrilus photodilus : Reynolds & Cook 1976 : 155 ; ZMH. Chilota photodilus : Michaelsen 1900 : 148 ; 1913a: 512; 1913b: 53. Chilota photodilus f. typicus Michaelsen 1913b : 54 . Chilota photodilus f. castaneus Michaelsen 1913b : 54 . Parachilota photodilus : Pickford 1937 : 238 ; Reynolds & Cook 1976 : 155 ; Zicsi 1998 : 63 ; HNHM. Type locality . WC , ‘Knysna Forest, in and under rotten wood, leaves, & c.’ ( Beddard 1897 ). Remarks . This species is recorded by Beddard (1897) , Michaelsen (1900 , 1913a , b ,) and Zicsi (1998: 63) under the names ‘ photodilus ’, ph . typicus ’, or ‘ ph. castaneus ’ from a number of sites in the south-eastern coastalbelt in Western and Eastern Cape, and KZN. Pickford (1937: 238) under the heading ‘ Parachilota photodilus ( Beddard, 1897 ) ’ gives a diagnosis of the species and a key to subspecies, based on distinctions between the shape of penial setae and the spermathecae. The subspecies P. photodilus photodilus and P. photodilus convolutus are then described in detail. Syntypes : ZMH V-7828, V-7835. Other material: NMSA.Olig.00450 (from Knysna, identified by Michaelsen, with the KZNatal Museum old accessing number ‘0470’); HNHM AF/2541, AF/2542, AF/2560, AF/2589, AF/2515.