26. Nelima doriae (Canestrini, 1872)

Liobunum doriae Canestrini, 1872: 384, 385 (original description)

Nelima pisarskii - Staręga, 1966: 407-409 (figs 23-24; original description)

Nelima doriae - Martens 1969: 398-401 (figs 6, 8, 15-22, 23-27; distributional records, taxonomy, systematics)

Nelima doriae - Staręga, 1978: 208 (mention)

Nelima doriae - Snegovaya, 2013: 185 (mention)

Type locality.

Italy, Genova without exact locality.

Occurrence data in Georgia.

Abkhazia • Akhali Atoni (=Noviy Afon), Sokhumi Municipality; leg. B. Pisarski, 19 November 1963 ( Staręga 1966).

Global distribution.

Mostly Mediterranean. Georgia, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Algeria, Greece, former Yugoslavia (Martens 1969; Staręga 1978); also in France, Belgium and the Netherlands (references in Martens 2021).

Remarks.

The various populations of this species display rather different genitalic characters and may represent a set of different species, as is also indicated by its large distributional area. Besides, N. doriae was introduced to Australia, New Zealand (Gruber and Hunt 1973), and Argentina (Acosta and Cokendolpher 1990). A man-made introduction may apply to the single Georgian record as well.