Nelima doriae (Canestrini, 1872)

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

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.