Zootaxa 4496 (1): 006–010 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) Editorial ZOOTAXA http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Copyright © 2018 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.3 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1DF6DD6B-9A96-44F8-9F8D-67DDD62C667D Global diversity of earthworms and enchytraeids (Clitellata): papers in honor of András Zicsi (1928–2015). Editorial RÜDIGER M. SCHMELZ IfAB, Institute for Applied Soil Biology, Tomberg 24a, 22337 Hamburg, Germany Universidad de A Coruña, Fac. Ciencias, GIBE, Evolutionary Biology Group, CICA, As Carballeiras s/n, Campus de Elviña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain E-Mail: [email protected] This Special Volume of Zootaxa unites forty papers written in honor of the late András Zicsi (1928–2015), the eminent earthworm taxonomist. They deal with the taxonomy, systematics and distribution of earthworms and enchytraeids, the two major groups of soil-dwelling Oligochaeta. Altogether, 71 new species-group taxa are described, 60 species and subspecies of earthworms and 11 species of enchytraeids. They are from 15 countries all around the globe: Spain, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Botswana, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The volume begins with an annotated list of the 10 genus- and 243 species-group taxa erected and described by András Zicsi (Csuzdi et al. 2018a). A superficial comparison of Zicsi's papers with the ones united here present three differences that highlight changes in earthworm taxonomy in the last 50 years: Firstly, while most of Zicsi's papers were published in German, all contributions here are in English. The time when taxonomists could publish—and expect to be read and understood—in their own (non-English) mother-tongue is definitely over. Secondly, while the majority of Zicsi's taxonomical papers are without co-author, the one-hundred-and-eleven authors and co-authors of this volume demonstrate that earthworm taxonomy is leaving the sphere of specialists who work on their own and in isolation, and is turning more and more into a cooperative group activity. Thirdly, and most importantly, DNA sequence data are increasingly included in the work of species recognition and delimitation, even though morphological scrutiny continues to be the backbone of sound taxonomical research. Almost half of the new species described here (and several others described previously) are characterized by a DNA-'barcode'. Zicsi welcomed all these changes and participated in them in his later years. And he was desperate that most of his collection, preserved in formaldehyde, was largely useless for DNA sequencing. Let's hope that better techniques will show up in the next decades to extract new information out of formaldehyde-preserved specimens. In the papers presented here, DNA sequence data are made useful to different degrees: Several contributions explicitly combine them with morphological data, to erect new species (Csuzdi et al. 2018b; Marchán et al. 2018; Seesamut et al. 2018), to revalidate junior synonyms (Szederjesi et al. 2018b), or to unveil the complexity of a widespread species (Rota et al. 2018). Or DNA sequence data are used to corroborate taxonomic decisions based mainly on the morphological account (Cervantes & Fragoso 2018; Dong et al. 2018; Dózsa-Farkas et al. 2018; Nagy et al. 2018; Nguyen et al. 2018; Shen et al. 2018; Sun et al. 2018). The usefulness of DNA data in earthworm taxonomy is still limited by the lack of DNA data in many species, especially in those described decades ago. Nevertheless, an approach as in Marchán et al. (2018) is likely to become common practice in the near future: to select clades on a DNA-sequence-based phylogenetic tree, and then to turn back to the sequenced specimens for morphologcial scrutiny and the formal erection of species taxa. The species descriptions themselves adhere to the rigid norms for erecting and describing species that are currently valid in the respective taxa, yet they also document the personal style and preferences of the authors: descriptions and illustrations confine to the established character catalogue, or they include additional observations on morphology and anatomy; some authors prefer line drawings, others photographs, many use both; line drawings are schematic or beautifully refined (see Nguyen et al. 2018; Seesamut et al. 2018). Describing species is not—not yet!—an automated and streamlined routine business but rather the result of a long and often sinuous process of observation, annotation, memory, and thought. 6 Accepted by Z.-Q. Zhang: 15 Aug. 2018; published: 5 Oct. 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 The papers of this volume are arranged in loose biogeographical order. There are 12 contributions from Northwestern Eurasia and Eastern Asia, respectively, 14 from the Americas, and there is one notable paper from Africa, with the first earthworm species described ever from Botswana (Nxele et al. 2018), member of a family endemic to southern Africa (Tritogeniidae). Eleven new species are described form Northwestern Eurasia (i.e., Europe, Russia, the Near East and Central Asia): one species of Octodrilus (Lumbricidae) from Italy (Csuzdi et al. 2018b); six species of Hormogastridae from Spain (Marchán et al. 2018), accommodated in two most recently erected genera; one species of Fridericia (Enchytraeidae) (Nagy et al. 2018) from Hungary; two species of Dendrobaena, and one species of Healyella (Lumbricidae) from Turkey (Szederjesi et al. 2018a). Thirty-seven new species are described from Eastern Asia, many of them belonging to the pheretimoid group in Megascolecidae: altogether 22 new species of Amynthas: two species from Japan (Shen 2018); nine species from Laos (Hong et al. 2018); and eleven species from southern China (Dong et al. 2018; Jiang et al. 2018; Sun et al. 2018; Zhao et al. 2018). One new species of Metaphire from southern China is added to the list (Sun et al. 2018). Further interesting finds are the first species of Pheretima sensu stricto in Vietnam (Nguyen et al. 2018), a new marine littoral oligochaete species from Thailand and mainland Malaysia (Seesamut et al. 2018)—a putative sister species of the cosmopolitan Pontodrilus litoralis—and two new species of Drawida from Taiwan (Shen et al. 2018). Finally, ten new species of Enchytraeidae are described: two species of Mesenchytraeus from China (Zhang et al. 2018); furthermore two species each of Achaeta and Xetadrilus, and one species each of Bryodrilus, Chamaedrilus/Cognettia, Enchytronia, and Mesenchytraeus, from Korea (Dózsa-Farkas et al. 2018). Twenty-three new species-group taxa are described from Central and South America: from Mexico one species each of the genera Diplotrema and Lavellodrilus (Fragoso & Rojas 2018), and two species of Protozapotecia (Cervantes & Fragoso 2018) (Acanthodrilidae); from Colombia one species each of Righiodrilus, Andiodrilus (Celis et al. 2018), Glossodrilus, and Martiodrilus (Feijoo et al. 2018) (Glossoscolecidae and Rhinodrilidae); from Brazil three species of Holoscolex (Hernández-García et al. 2018a), two species of Andiorrhinus (Hernández- García et al. 2018b), five new species of Glossoscolex, one of them with three subspecies (Bartz et al. 2018; Feijoo & Brown 2018), and one species of Fimoscolex (Feijoo & Brown 2018). Furthermore, two new genera of Ocnerodrilidae are erected to accommodate two new species (Hernández-García et al. 2018c). Apart from the description of new species, other topics related to taxonomy are covered as well: redescriptions of known species found in China (Lu et al. 2018), Thailand and Malaysia (Seesamut et al. 2018), or worldwide (Rota et al. 2018); regional or State-defined checklists of species from the Balkans or Turkey, with information on the biogeographical distribution type of the species (Misirlioğlu & Stojanović 2018; Stojanović et al. 2018; Valchovski et al. 2018); records of species in Turkey (Szederjesi et al. 2018a), Colombia (Feijoo et al. 2018), and in states of southern Brazil (Demetrio et al. 2018; Ferreira et al. 2018; Santos et al. 2018; Steffen et al. 2018), some of them as yet undescribed, together with indications on reference material and information of habitat parameters and the species' ecology; furthermore life cycle differences among natural populations of E. andrei (Latif et al. 2018), a morphological aberration in Lumbricus rubellus (Carrera-Martínez & Callaham 2018), and purely nomenclatural issues (Nicholson & Csuzdi 2018). Höser (2018) relates species-specific habitat preferences of the central European lumbricid genus Proctodrilus to processes of soil formation. Shen (2018) advocates the use of biogeographical species knowledge to assess the accuracy of species identifications and synonymizations in some regions of South-East Asia. All in all, the volume covers taxa from 11 families and 36 different genera. With an estimated number of 7000 species of earthworms and enchytraeids known, this volume increases the number of known species by one per cent—a small but notable proportion. The forty contributions, though seemingly disparate in contents and coverage, should be understood as forty more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle "Global diversity of terrestrial Oligochaeta", whose final number of pieces is completely unknown, even though the rough outlines—the distribution of families and genera over the continents, their phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships—are by now quite well-established. Earthworm taxonomy is not an ivory tower discipline. Many species are discovered in areas where people live, work, and sustain their livelihood. Because of their body size they are often known by the locals before science gets hold of them. Farmers are interested in the species that live on their lands. Sustainable agriculture is unthinkable without earthworms. The amount of endemic species with a narrow distribution range—and therefore with risk of extinction—is tremendous. It is therefore important to build and to maintain the bridge from the 'producers' to the 7 Zootaxa 4496 (1) © 2018 Magnolia Press · 'users' of earthworm taxonomy, as can be seen in this volume by species checklists (e.g., Stojanovic et al. 2018), abstracts in the language of the country (here in most of the contributions from the Americas), or by proposals of vernacular names (Marchán et al. 2018). My call for papers to commemorate the person and scientific legacy of András Zicsi has received an overwhelming response from earthworm and enchytraeid taxonomists in many parts of the world. This volume is a strong signal that terrestrial oligochaete taxonomy in the 21st century is very much alive, despite the often difficult working conditions of earthworm taxonomists and the increasing legislative obstacles to conduct biodiversity research. My heartful thanks go to Zhi-Qiang Zhang, editor-in-chief of Zootaxa, to make this volume possible, to the production team of Zootaxa, to the numerous peer reviewers, who dedicated their time and expertise to the improvement of the manuscripts, to the corresponding authors for their fantastic cooperation, and to all contributors for their work and, last but not least, for their patience with the delay of this volume's publication, for which this editor holds responsibility. Rüdiger M. 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Zootaxa, 4496 (1), 382–394. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.28 Zhao, Q., Yao, X., Lan, Y., Xu, J. & Qiu, J. (2018) New earthworm species of the genus Amynthas from Hainan Island, China (Megascolecidae, Clitellata). Zootaxa, 4496 (1), 279–286. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.23 10 · Zootaxa 4496 (1) © 2018 Magnolia Press SCHMELZ