<strong>Review of the <em>Eisenia muganiensis</em> (Michaelsen, 1910) species group with description of two new species (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)</strong>

TÍMEA SZEDERJESI; TOMÁS PAVLÍČEK; ROBABEH LATIF; CSABA CSUZDI

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.7

Issue: Vol. 3884 No. 3: 14 Nov. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-11-14

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.7

Page range: 282–288

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**Review of the Eisenia muganiensis (Michaelsen, 1910) species group with description of two new species (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)**

TÍMEA SZEDERJESI⁺⁻
TOMÁS PAVLÍČEK⁺⁻
ROBABEH LATIF⁺⁻
CSABA CSUZDI⁺⁻

Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel.

School of Biology, College of Science, Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary.

Earthworms Clitellata Asia Turkey Iran biodiversity Turanian-Far Eastern domain

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Abstract

The Eisenia muganiensis species group is established, consisting of a set of Asian earthworm species characterized by elongate, backward placed clitellum and tubercles: Eisenia malevici Perel, 1962; Eisenia muganiensis (Michaelsen, 1910); Eisenia patriciae Szederjesi, Pavlíček, Coşkun & Csuzdi, 2014 and Eisenia transcaucasica (Perel, 1967). The species are shortly reviewed and furthermore, two new species of the E. muganiensis group are described, E. kontschani sp. nov. from Turkey and E. malekae sp. nov. from Iran.