RARE ERPOBDELLIDS LEECHES (HIRUDINEA: ERPOBDELLIDAE) OF THE BLACK SEA LOWLAND: IDENTIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION
Journal: Odesa National University Herald Biology
Year: 2019

The purpose of the paper was to describe as fully as possible the complex of features by which one can distinguish the above species and to specify the distribution of these leeches in the Black Sea lowland.Results. Detailed studies of the external morphology and genital anatomy demonstrated that D. stschegolewi is very different from D. apathyi. Features such as the number of light spots and their size, as well as the shape and size of papillae differ in D. stschegolewi and D. apathyi, but thes