Marin I.N.1*, Sinelnikov S.Yu.2 2024. A new species of the genus Proasellus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae) from the Abin River basin, with the preliminary data on the diversity of the genus in the southwestern foothills of the Russian Caucasus // Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.21. No.1: 81–93 [in English].
1 A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071 Russia. E-mail: coralliodecapoda@mail.ru
2 Papanin Institute for the Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Region 152742 Russia. E-mail: sinelnikoff@yandex.ru
* corresponding author
Ivan Marin: ORCID: 0000-0003-0552-8456
Sergey Sinelnikov: ORCID: 0000-0003-4188-4589
doi: 10.15298/invertzool.21.1.04
ABSTRACT. A new stygobiotic species of the genus Proasellus Dudich, 1925 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae), Proasellus abini sp.n., is described from the hyporheic habitats and groundwater of the Abin River basin, located in the southwestern foothills of the Caucasian Ridge. The new species is morphologically and genetically close to Proasellus linearis Birštein, 1967, known from the Evstafiev Sсhel (=Ashamba River) near Gelendzhik. Data on phylogeny, ecology and feeding of the species and other SW Caucasian species of the genus are also presented in the paper.
KEY WORDS: Crustacea, diversity, Proasellus, new species, hyporhea, stygobiotic, southwestern Caucasus, Russia.