A comprehensive checklist of the earthworm species known from Sri Lanka, an island country in the Indian subcontinent, is presented. In total, 81 species and subspecies belonging to 20 genera and 8 families are recorded. Of these, 58 are Sri Lanka endemics, 2 near endemics and 21 exotics. The checklist includes the type locality, any significant subsequent generic placements, and the distributional pattern with province and districts for each species/subspecies within Sri Lanka.

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The earthworm fauna of the wetlands of India is highly undocumented. We have carried out a survey of earthworms in the Kuttanad wetland, an integral part of the Vembanad-Kol Ramsar Site, India’s largest wetland of international importance. Current investigation has documented 17 species belonging to 7 families. Megascolex travancorensis pentagonalis Stephenson, 1916 and Glyphidrilus fluviatilis Rao, 1922 were reported for the first time since their original descriptions. Based on the current study, M. t. pentagonalis is raised to species rank as M. pentagonalis from the subspecies status. G. fluviatilis and Lennogaster chittagongensis (Stephenson, 1917) are new records for the state of Kerala. Present results provide a more complete picture of the earthworm fauna of Kuttanad wetland.