A new species of Drawida Michaelsen, 1900 (Clitellata: Moniligastridae) from the Western Ghats, and the rediscovery of D. loricata Gates, 1945 from Southern India
A new species, Drawida incomparabilis Ahmed & Narayanan, sp. nov., is described from the specimens collected from the Western Ghats mountain chain of Keralam and Tamil Nadu states of Southern India. Drawida incomparabilis sp. nov., is a unique species, which is distinguishable from all known species of the genus Drawida by the presence of glandular prostate and posterior location of the gizzards (six to eight in segments 24–33). Furthermore, we also report the re-collection of D. loricata Gates, 1945 from Tamil Nadu State after 81 years since its first description.