Zachaeus shachdag Snegovaya & Staręga, 2008

Chitadze, Beka, Dzuliashvili, Kristina & Seropian, Armen, 2025, New data on harvestmen (Opiliones) of Georgia with the description of a new Rilaena species, Zootaxa 5725 (4), pp. 591-599 : 597

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.4.9
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:60710B09-809E-4E49-B829-E2BF93CFA5BF
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DC5287DA-FF97-FFD0-FF01-1554FC79CF24
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Zachaeus shachdag Snegovaya & Staręga, 2008
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Zachaeus shachdag Snegovaya & Staręga, 2008 View in CoL

Zachaeus shachdag Snegovaya & Staręga, 2008: 5 View in CoL , figs 1–5, 6–8, 9–13( ♂ ♀)

Material examined: GEORGIA • 1 ♂, ( ISUIE); Gurjaani ; N41.8325°, E45.8532°; 250 m a.s.l.; 13 Jul. 2018; leg. L. Ninua; hand collecting; CaBOL-ID 1035654 GoogleMaps • 1 ♂, ( ISUIE); Erisimedi ; N41.5855°, E46.3325°; 190 m a.s.l.; 17 Jul. 2018; leg. G. Iankoshvili; hand collecting; CaBOL-ID 1035655 GoogleMaps . • 1 ♂, ( ISUIE); Lagodekhi NP; N41.874°, E46.357°; 1940 m a.s.l.; 17 Jul. 2022; leg. B. Chitadze; hand collecting; BGE-ID 00665 GoogleMaps _G10.

Barcoding: Two sequences were obtained from the specimens with CaBOL-IDs 1035654 and 1035655, BGE-ID 00665_G10 ( BOLD: AGS 2943, maximum p -distance 0.46%). There were no sequences for Z. shachdag in BOLD Systems, as we submitted the first ones.

Remarks: Zachaeus shachdag , described from Azerbaijan ( Snegovaya & Starega 2008), was previously regarded as endemic to that country and is currently reassessed as endemic to the Caucasus. Here, we record it for the first time in Georgia, extending its known distribution further west.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Opiliones
Family	Phalangiidae
Genus	Zachaeus