Arachnids of North Carolina
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Leiobunum zimmermani Roewer, 1952 - No Common Name


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Taxonomy
Order: OPILIONESSuborder: EupnoiSuperfamily: PhalangioideaFamily: SCLEROSOMATIDAE                                                                                 
Comments: Approximately 30 species in this genus have been identified as occurring in North America north of Mexico (Cokendolpher and Lee, 1993; Ingianni et al., 2011), with 16 recorded in North Carolina. However, the validity of several of these species is suspect, with several that will probably be determined to be synonyms of other species, e.g., davisi, speciosum, and zimmermani in North Carolina Burns et al., 2012; Shultz, 2018). According to Shultz (2018), moreover, recent phylogenetic studies indicate both that more species are waiting to be described and that the name Leiobunum may eventually be restricted to European species, requiring new generic names for most, if not all, of our species.
Species Comment: Listed by Cokendolpher and Lee (2003) for North Carolina, citing Roewer 1952. The type locality was given as "Whitesides Mountains?, (county?), North Carolina". This is apparently the sole known record for this species. According to Burns et al. (2012), "Leiobunum davisi and L. zimmermani are probably synonymous with species included here; the original descriptions were poor, the types appear to have been lost, and type localities are historically well collected."
Identification
Online Description/Photos: BugGuide Google, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, GBIF
Distribution in North Carolina
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Adult phenology:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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