Metaphire leonoris ( Chen, 1946 )

Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), Zootaxa 4140 (1), pp. 1-92 : 61

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Metaphire leonoris ( Chen, 1946)

Pheretima leonoris Chen, 1946: 114 , Plate VII, Fig. A; Do 1994: 89; Nakamura 1999: 31; Thai 2000a: 309; Huynh & Nguyen 2004a: 115.

Metaphire leonoris— Sims & Easton 1972: 238; Blakemore 2007a: 58.

Type locality. Szechuan ( China).

Type material. Unknown.

Records from Vietnam. Lao Cai (Sa Pa) ; Hanoi ( Ba Vi NP) (Do 1994; Huynh & Nguyen 2004a).

Distribution. China (Szechuan) ( Chen 1946).

Remarks. Chen (1946) recorded two coloration types of the species: white specimens living in the yellow clays and dark specimens living in humus soils. The species was only known from highly mountainous areas ( 1,800m a.s.l. in Szechuan and 2,000m a.s.l. in Sa Pa). Do (1994) assumed that it could be an endemic species for mountainous areas in Indochina and Southern China . No material was examined because of lack of available specimens.