taxonID	type	description	language	source
039B9C1B19270F61FF6C14B97EF189CA.taxon	description	New record. Present all along the northern Mediterranean, with a preference for wet soils. In central Italy it is confined to some altitude and is absent in the southern regions except for two records (800 – 1300 m) from Sicily (Martinucci & Omodeo 1988) and Sardinia (unpubl. datum, Table 1). In the Maghreb it is only known so far from cultivated land in Algeria (Omodeo et al. 2003), where it has possibly been introduced with crops and has spread through irrigation channels.	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19270F61FF6C166B7C3888D9.taxon	description	Already recorded by Csuzdi & Sciberras (2014) from Chadwick Lakes and along with A. rosea (Savigny, 1826) from an additional unspecified locality that the present authors have traced to be within Wied Qirda, a typical wied in central Malta surrounded by agricultural land.	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19270F61FF6C12D97D4E8B09.taxon	description	New record. Peregrine, synanthropic. This acanthodrilid and its congener M. phosphoreus (Dugès, 1837), are both native of South America, but are now widely represented worldwide in anthropogenic habitats in regions with a Mediterranean climate. In Europe M. dubius has only been recorded from countries bordering the Mediterranean (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Albania and Greece; Rota 2013).	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19270F61FF6C15A97FE98A1C.taxon	description	New record. Peregrine, synanthropic, introduced worldwide, and notable for its bioluminescence, this species has a larger invasive capacity and adaptability than M. dubius. In Europe it has spread even into deep coal mines in southern Poland (Rota & de Jong 2015).	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19240F62FF6C11FB7DE88E49.taxon	description	New record. Circum-Mediterranean, widespread in the Maghreb, Sardinia, and Corsica. In Sicily it is confined to the eastern provinces of Siracusa (Brucoli; Omodeo 1964) and Messina (Fiumedinisi, 06.04.1962, G. Sichel & P. Alicata leg.; unpubl. datum. Fiumara Patrì, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto; Omodeo 1960).	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19240F62FF6C10E97DCD8DF4.taxon	description	New record. Woodland species; in the south of Italy this is a typical inhabitant of Mediterranean holm oak (Q. ilex) forests (Rota et al. 2014). Records from Sicily are confined to the eastern provinces of Siracusa (Omodeo 1964) and Messina (Eolie Islands, Lipari, Chiesavecchia, 350 m, 12.03.1986, M. G. Filippucci leg., unpubl. datum). Present all along the northern Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands (unpubl. datum, Table 1), absent from the Near East and from the Maghreb. In the latter region it is replaced throughout by the equally minute D. lusitana Graff, 1957 (Omodeo et al. 2003). In the Canaries the two species coexist (Omodeo & Rota 2008).	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19240F62FF6C13B67F338CA2.taxon	description	New record. Litter-dwelling species, common in the Holarctic. Together with congener D. rubidus (Savigny, 1826) in its amphimictic and parthenogenetic forms, it is frequent in cave habitats. The vast majority of the lumbricid worms identified by Pop (1968) in Racovitza & Jeannel's Biospeologica Collection belonged to Dendrodrilus, with frequency in samples triple than for Eiseniella tetraedra. Novak et al. (2015) found D. rubidus tenuis in percolating water drips in a cave in northern Slovenia, drifted there from an unknown subterranean habitat above the passage where the samples were collected.	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19240F62FF6C15BB7DB78A09.taxon	description	Already recorded by Csuzdi & Sciberras (2014) from an unspecified locality with Allolobophora chlorotica (Savigny, 1826), traced by the present authors to be Il-Ballut tal-Wardija. A circum-Mediterranean species found in Sicily in all types of habitats; in the Maghreb it prefers grasslands with or without trees.	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
039B9C1B19240F62FF6C14A97CF389F9.taxon	description	The first earthworm species recorded from Malta (Baldasseroni 1907). Csuzdi & Sciberras (2014) reported it from around St. Georges Bay, a heavily urbanized area surrounding a small valley (Wied Harq Hamiem). Trans-Aegean, absent from the Iberian Peninsula, France, Sardinia and North Africa. In southern Italy it is only known from Apulia and eastern Sicily (Avola, Siracusa Province; Omodeo 1964).	en	Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J., Omodeo, Pietro (2017): Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae). Zootaxa 4311 (2): 287-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.11
