Abstract
Specimens of the genus Orobdella Oka, 1895 from Kunashir Island, the Kuril Islands, are identified as Orobdella kawakatsuorum Richardson, 1975. Mitochondrial tRNALeu and ND1 data confirm the species identification of the Kunashir specimens. This is the first record of the genus Orobdella from the Kuril Islands.
Highlights
The genus Orobdella Oka, 1895 is a terrestrial macrophagous leech taxon that contains 11 described species from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (Nakano 2012b, Nakano and Lai 2012, Nakano and Seo 2012)
The northernmost distributional limits of this genus have been reported as Primorsky Krai of the Russian Far East, and the Shiretoko Peninsula of Hokkaido where two species, O. kawakatsuorum Richardson, 1975 and O. koikei Nakano, 2012, have been recorded (Nakano 2012a)
The Kuril Islands are a long archipelago off the coast of the Russian Far East located between the Kamchatka Peninsula and Hokkaido
Summary
The genus Orobdella Oka, 1895 is a terrestrial macrophagous leech taxon that contains 11 described species from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (Nakano 2012b, Nakano and Lai 2012, Nakano and Seo 2012). Hirudinida, Orobdella kawakatsuorum, geographical record, ND1, Kuril Islands The northernmost distributional limits of this genus have been reported as Primorsky Krai of the Russian Far East, and the Shiretoko Peninsula of Hokkaido where two species, O. kawakatsuorum Richardson, 1975 and O. koikei Nakano, 2012, have been recorded (Nakano 2012a). Several Orobdella specimens were collected on Kunashir Island by the second author during a survey of soil fauna on the island.
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