Species Nelima doriae (Canestrini, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leiobunum doriae Canestrini, G. 1871. Nuove specie di Opilionidi Italiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 3: 381-385 [384].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Genova, Italy.
• Nelima dunni Forster, R.R. 1947. A new harvestman of the subfamily Liobuninae from Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 174-177 [174].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂, Carnegie, Victoria, Australia.
  Paratype(s) AM 1♀ (allotype), Carnegie, Victoria, Australia; NMV 1♂, Carnegie, Victoria, Australia; MONZ 2/62 1♂ 1♀, Carnegie, Victoria, Australia.
• Nelima maroccana Roewer, C.F. 1957. Über Oligolophinae, Caddoinae, Sclerosomatinae, Leiobuninae, Neopilioninae und Leptobuninae (Phalangiidae, Opiliones Palpatores). Senckenbergiana Biologica 38: 323-358 [348].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF RII/2877/54 ♂, Fez, Morocco.
  Paratype(s) SMF RII/2877/54 1♂, Fez, Morocco.
• Nelima pisarskii Starega, W. 1966. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Weberknecht-Fauna (Opiliones) der Kaukasusländer. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 23: 387-411 [407].

  Type data:

   Holotype IZW ♂, Stadtpark, Sochi, Russia.
  Paratype(s) IZW 1♂, Achali-Afoni, Novyy Afon, near Sukhumi, Abkhazskaya, Georgia; IZW 1♂, Stadtpark, Sochi, Russia; IZW 1♀ (allotype), Stadtpark, Sochi, Russia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Martens, J. 1966. Zoologischen Aufsammlungen auf Kreta III. Opiliones. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 69: 347-362 [360] (synonymy of Nelima maroccanum with N. doriae)
• Martens, J. 1969. Mittel und südeuropäische Arten der Gattung Nelima (Arachnida: Opiliones: Leiobunidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 50: 395-415 [398] (synonymy of Nelima pisarskii with N. doriae)
• Gruber, J. & Hunt, G.S. 1973. Nelima doriae (Canestrini), a South European harvestman in Australia and New Zealand (Arachnida, Opiliones, Phalangiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 28: 383-392 [385] (synonymy of Nelima dunni with Nelima doriae)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from southern Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
• New Zealand

Neotropical Region

• Argentina

Palaearctic Region

• France
• Greece
  • Crete
• Italy
  • Corsica
  • Sardinia
  • Sicily
• Morocco
• Spain
• USSR
• Yugoslavia

General References

Acosta, L.E. & Cokendolpher, J.C. 1990. Nelima doriae introduced into Argentina, first record of the subfamily Leiobuninae (Opiliones: Gagrellidae) from South America. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 144-146 [144] (distribution)

Gruber, J. & Hunt, G.S. 1973. Nelima doriae (Canestrini), a South European harvestman in Australia and New Zealand (Arachnida, Opiliones, Phalangiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 28: 383-392 [385] (redescription and distribution)

Hunt, G.S. 1987. New records of the exotic leiobunid harvestman, Nelima doriae. Australasian Arachnology 29: 4-5 [4] (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-May-2013		15-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)