The pseudoscorpions of the Caucasian Sphagnum bogs: part I. Description of Neobisium (Neobisium) adjaricum sp. nov. and redescription of the holotype of N. (N.) vilcekii Krumpál, 1983 (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae)

Vasiliy B Kolesnikov; Jana Christophoryová; Andrey A Przhiboro; Ilya S Turbanov

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1100.81910

The pseudoscorpions of the Caucasian Sphagnum bogs: part I. Description of Neobisium (Neobisium) adjaricum sp. nov. and redescription of the holotype of N. (N.) vilcekii Krumpál, 1983 (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae)

Zookeys. 2022 May 16:1100:165-190. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1100.81910. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Vasiliy B Kolesnikov^{1

2}, Jana Christophoryová³, Andrey A Przhiboro⁴, Ilya S Turbanov^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Federal Public Budgetary Scientific Institution All-Russian Research Institute of Protection of Plants, VNIISS, Voronezh Province, 396030, Russia Federal Public Budgetary Scientific Institution All-Russian Research Institute of Protection of Plants, VNIISS Voronezh Russia.
² Tyumen State University, 6 Volodarskogo Str., Tyumen, 625003, Russia Tyumen State University Tyumen Russia.
³ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia.
⁴ Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Saint Petersburg Russia.
⁵ I.D. Papanin Institute of Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Province, 152742, Russia I.D. Papanin Institute of Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences Borok Russia.
⁶ Cherepovets State University, Vologda Province, Cherepovets, 162600, Russia Cherepovets State University Cherepovets Russia.

Abstract

A new species of pseudoscorpions, Neobisium (Neobisium) adjaricumsp. nov., is described and diagnosed. It was collected in the Sphagnum habitats of Ispani lowland mires in Transcaucasia (Republic of Adjara, Georgia). The habitat of N. (N.) adjaricumsp. nov. is described. The holotype of N. (N.) vilcekii Krumpál, 1983, a species most similar morphologically to N. (N.) adjaricumsp. nov., known from the North Caucasus (Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia), is redescribed. Diagnostic characters of the relative Caucasian species of the subgenus Neobisium Chamberlin, 1930 are analysed.

Keywords: Bryobiont; Georgia; Russia; mire; new species; peat bog; taxonomy; tyrphophile.

Vasiliy B. Kolesnikov, Jana Christophoryová, Andrey A. Przhiboro, Ilya S. Turbanov.