Udeina pliskoae Zicsi 1998

Figs 16–17

Udeina pliskoae Zicsi, 1998: 68.

Material examined: Holotype NMSA /Olig.00729, and one immature paratype NMSA/00729 a, both collected in KwaZulu­Natal: Eastwolds (30º00'S: 29º55'E) area, approx. 30 km north­west of Ixopo, along road to Bulwer, 29 January 1991, JDP & B. R. Stuckenberg; clitellate, holotype dissected.

Remarks: External and internal characters accord with the original description.Additional data are as follows: prostatic pores in segment 17 on small rounded papillae; male pores in front of b setae evident in 18. Vasa deferentia extend to segment 18, entering body wall separately from prostatic duct. Spermathecae in segment 8, spermathecal ducts entering into intersegmental furrow 7/8. Spermathecal duct short; spermathecal diverticulum chambered, unilobate (Fig. 16), iridescent, containing sperm. No sperm were observed in duct or in ampulla. Prostate (Fig. 17) elongated in segments 16–19. U. pliskoae is similar to U. mapelane, differing in two substantial characters. In U. pliskoae spermiductal funnels are enclosed, but they are free in U. mapelane; the size and shape of the whole spermathecae, and notably the length of spermathecal duct in U. mapelane which is much longer than this in U. pliskoae. The similarity between U. pliskoae and U. reichei indicated by Zicsi (1998) cannot be confirmed. These species differ also notably in the shape of spermathecae and prostate (Figs 16–17, 21–23).