Hristo Valchovski1, Venera Tsolova2 and Plamen Tomov2
1 Agricultural Academy Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnologies and Plant Protection “N. Poushkarov”, Department of Physics, Erosion, Soil Biota, 1080 Sofia, Bulgaria
2 Agricultural Academy, Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnologies and Plant Protection “N. Poushkarov”, Department of Genesis, Diagnostic and Soil Classification, 1080 Sofia, Bulgaria
Valchovski, H., Tsolova, V. & Tomov, P. (2023). Earthworm (Annelida: Lumbricidae) records from Pernik region. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 29 (3), 519–521
The paper provides the first exploration of earthworm populations from region of Pernik (Bulgaria). During the investigation were registered ten earthworm species from the studied area: Allolobophora chlorotica (Savigny, 1826), Aporrectodea caliginosa (Savigny, 1826), Aporrectodea rosea (Savigny, 1826), Aporrectodea trapezoides (Dugès, 1828), Aporrectodea jassyensis (Michaelsen, 1891), Cernosvitovia rebeli (Rosa, 1897), Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758, Lumbricus rubellus Hoffmeister, 1843, Octodrilus transpadanus (Rosa, 1884) and Octolasion lacteum (Örley, 1881).