Genus Pseudopomatias Möllendorff, 1885

Pseudopomatias Möllendorff, 1885: p. 164. Fargesia Heude, 1886: p. 211.

Fargesia — Johnson 1973: p. 34.

Type species. Pseudopomatias amoenus Möllendorff, 1885 by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Shell small to large, turriform or spindle-shaped, rather regularly ribbed; aperture rather round with slight columellar-parietal and parietal-palatal transitions; the latter is usually more angled; the parietal side is usually straight; peristome consists of two circles, in some species it appears as "single"; basal keel missing; operculum densely coiled, thin, membranous (Figs 5 C–F).

Differential diagnosis. Differs from Eucataulus Kobelt, 1902 (often referred as subgenus of Tortulosa Gray, 1847), Nodopomatias, Tortulosa (syn: Perlisia Tomlin, 1948) and Vargapupa n. gen. by the absence of a basal keel. Moreover, Tortulosa and Eucataulus usually have smooth shells and a basal canal in the aperture. Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902 (synonym: Pinteria Varga, 1972, see Egorov 2013) also has a more corpulent, smooth shell and some species possesses a basal keel. Pseudopomatias lacks the additional line (groove) above the suture, which is present in Csomapupa n. gen. The Australian genus Hedleya Cox, 1892 also has a similar shell in terms of shape and ribbing, but it has two canals in the aperture.

Content. P. ab l e t t i n. sp., P. amoenus Möllendorff, 1885, P. e o s Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905, P. harli n. sp., P. himalayae (Benson, 1859), P. linanprietoae n. sp., P. maasseni n. sp., P. nitens n. sp., P. peguensis (Theobald, 1864), P. pleurophorus (Benson, 1857), P. p re s t o ni n. sp., P. re i s c h ue t z i n. sp., P. shanensis n. sp., P. s i y o m e n s i s Godwin-Austen, 1917, P. sophiae n. sp.

Distribution (Fig. 7): The genus is widely distributed in Asia from north-eastern India to Taiwan.