A new earthworm species of the genus Amynthas (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) from northern Taiwan, false synonymy between Amynthas corticis (Kinberg, 1867) and Amynthas sheni (Chen, 1935) and other taxonomic issues relating to A. corticis Author Shen, Huei-Ping Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, 1 Ming-shen East Road, Jiji, Nantou 552, Taiwan Author Chang, Chih-Han Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan & Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan chihhanchang@ntu.edu.tw & chihhanchang.ntu@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2025 2025-02-19 5589 1 112 126 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.10 journal article 308306 10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.10 ed8120b4-c685-4cd7-88a3-0aa7c079d337 1175-5326 14896799 B8D0015B-EF2D-4890-92AD-94CB815B8658

TABLE 1. GenBank accession numbers of COI sequences of specimens used in this study.

Species	Locality	Voucher no.	GenBank accession no.
1 Type locality. 2 Paratype locality.
Amynthas biorbis Tsai & Shen, 2010	Wulu, Taitung, eastern Taiwan	ET3	PP960540
	Hongshih Forest Road, Taitung, eastern Taiwan	East835	PP960541
	Hongshih Forest Road, Taitung, eastern Taiwan	East865	PP960542
	Yenping Forest Road, Taitung, eastern Taiwan2	East891	PP960543
Amynthas corticis (Kinberg, 1867)	Meifeng, Nantou, central Taiwan	cort3	JX290436
	Meifeng, Nantou, central Taiwan	cort4	JX290437
	Meifeng, Nantou, central Taiwan	cort5	JX290438
	Meifeng, Nantou, central Taiwan	cort6	JX290439
	Meifeng, Nantou, central Taiwan	cort7	JX290440
	Fuhsing, Taoyuan, northern Taiwan	cort8	JX290432
	Fuhsing, Taoyuan, northern Taiwan	cort9	JX290433
	Yakou, Taitung, eastern Taiwan	cort10	JX290431
	Alishan, Chiayi, southern Taiwan	cort11	JX290434
	Alishan, Chiayi, southern Taiwan	cort12	JX290435
Amynthas popi sp. nov.	Shihlin, Taipei, northern Taiwan2	NTUM-EW-07908	PP960536
	Shihlin, Taipei, northern Taiwan2	NTUM-EW-08072	PP960537
	Fuhsing, Taoyuan, northern Taiwan2	NTUM-EW-09336	PP960538
	Fuhsing, Taoyuan, northern Taiwan1	NTUM-EW-09352	PP960539