Microplaninae, Pantin, 1953

Justine, Jean-Lou, Gastineau, Romain & Winsor, Leigh, 2024, Land flatworms (Tricladida: Geoplanidae) in France and French overseas territories: ten years of research, Zoologia (e 24004) 41, pp. 1-25 : 13

Various Microplaninae

Microplaninae are native to Europe. We have not yet published findings on the Microplaninae from mainland France, mostly because the species are generally small and escape the attention of citizen scientists. We know, however, that mainland France harbors a variety of species ( Alvarez-Presas et al. 2022) and it is likely that many native European species remain to be described ( Mateos et al. 2017). Species recorded are: Microplana henrici (Bendl, 1908) , Microplana howesi (Scharff, 1900) , Microplana mahnerti Minelli, 1977 , Microplana pyrenaica (von Graff, 1893) , Microplana scharffi (von Graff, 1896) , and Microplana terrestris (Müller, 1774) . Sequences reported from French specimens ( Mateos et al. 2017) indicate that Microplana hyalina Vila-Farré & Sluys, 2011 and Microplana cf. aixandrei are also present in France. An unformally published document ( Noël and Gros 2015) states that Microplana kwiskea Jones, Webster, Littlewood & McDonald, 2008 is present in the South of France and we confirm since this was based on our own unpublished sequence.