title: Review of the Eisenia muganiensis (Michaelsen, 1910) species group with description of two new species (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae).
abstract: The Eisenia muganiensis species group is established, consisting of a set of Asian earthworm species characterized by elongate, backward placed clitellum and tubercles: Eisenia malevici Perel, 1962; Eisenia muganiensis (Michaelsen, 1910); Eisenia patriciae Szederjesi, Pavlíček, Coşkun & Csuzdi, 2014 and Eisenia transcaucasica (Perel, 1967). The species are shortly reviewed and furthermore, two new species of the E. muganiensis group are described, E. kontschani sp. nov. from Turkey and E. malekae sp. nov. from Iran.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.; Email: t.szederjesi@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tímea
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Szederjesi
authors.affiliation: Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel.; Email: pavlicek@research.haifa.ac.il.
authors.forename: Tomás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pavlíček
authors.affiliation: School of Biology, College of Science, Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.; Email: robabeh.latif@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Robabeh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Latif
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary.; Email: csuzdi.csaba@ektf.hu.
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Csuzdi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D009835:Oligochaeta / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D014421:Turkey