New earthworm records from the Ukrainian part of the north-eastern Carpathians (Megadrili: Lumbricidae)

Abstract

Elaboration of the earthworm material collected from the Ukrainian part of the north-eastern Carpathians resulted in recording 8 species. Revision of the former E. spelaea (Rosa, 1901) records revealed that all these specimens are misidentifications of E. lucens (Waga, 1857). D. veneta cognettii (Černosvitov, 1935), a former synonym of D. alpina alteclitellata (Pop, 1938) and junior homonym of D. cognettii (Michaelsen, 1903) has been reinstated and a new replacement name D. cernosvitovi nom. nov. is proposed.