Paranemastoma umbo (Roewer, 1951)

Modebadze, Naia, Martens, Jochen, Snegovaya, Nataly & Barjadze, Shalva, 2023, An annotated list of the Georgian harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones), Caucasiana 2, pp. 211-230 : 211

22. Paranemastoma umbo (Roewer, 1951)

Nemastoma umbo Roewer, 1951: 122 (table 1, fig. 4, table 3, fig. 23; original description)

Paranemastoma umbo - Staręga, 1978: 206 (mention)

Paranemastoma umbo - Martens, 2006: 206-207 (discussion of taxonomic status and distribution)

Paranemastoma umbo - Schönhofer, 2013: 46 (mention)

Paranemastoma umbo - Snegovaya, 2013: 185 (mention)

Type locality.

Georgia, Abkhazia region, Sokhumi Municipality, village Lata.

Occurrence data in Georgia.

Abkhazia • Lata near Tkvarcheli, Gulripshi Municipality; leg. V. Kalischevsky, September 1905 ( Roewer 1951).

Global distribution.

Allegedly restricted to Georgia, but due to incorrect labeling, probably not occurring in the Caucasian ecoregion ( Martens 2006; Schönhofer 2013, Snegovaya, 2013).

Remarks.

Martens (2006) explained that P. umbo displays a number of characters that are unusual in all Caucasian Paranemastoma species and he concluded that the relevant series in the Roewer collection in Senckenberg Museum/Frankfurt am Main, Germany, must have been labeled with the wrong location and, for the time being, should be removed from both the Georgian and the Caucasian lists.