Abstract
In August 2009 the Natural History Museum London, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research group, Entomological Museum in Leon and The Society for Environmental Exploration, mounted the first earthworm collection expedition to Nicaragua. No native earthworm species had previously been recorded for this country. This paper lists 18 new species records for the Country with the description of two new taxa to science: Eutrigaster (Graffia) azul sp. n. and Eutrigaster (Graffia) nicaraoi sp. n. New data on the species Eutrigaster (Eutrigaster) oraedivitis Cognetti, 1904 is also presented here.
Highlights
Knowledge of the Latin American earthworm fauna is currently patchy
No native earthworm species had previously been recorded for this country
Some countries such as Brazil and Ecuador have, to some extent, been sampled; the species total for Brazil currently stands at 305, that for Ecuador and Columbia at 139 (Brown & Fragoso, 2007)
Summary
Knowledge of the Latin American earthworm fauna is currently patchy. Some countries such as Brazil and Ecuador have, to some extent, been sampled; the species total for Brazil currently stands at 305, that for Ecuador and Columbia at 139 (Brown & Fragoso, 2007). The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta) Abstract In August 2009 the Natural History Museum London, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research group, Entomological Museum in Leon and The Society for Environmental Exploration, mounted the first earthworm collection expedition to Nicaragua. No native earthworm species had previously been recorded for this country.
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