Neobisium (Blothrus) georgecastriotae Ćurčić, 2006

Červená, Martina, Gardini, Giulio, Jablonski, Daniel & Christophoryová, Jana, 2021, Fig. 17. Periclimenaeus djiboutensis Bruce, 1970, ovigerous female specimen pocl 3.7 in Two New Species and a Further Country Record of the Caridean Shrimp Genus Borradaile, 1915 from Korea (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)., Zoological Studies 60 (17), pp. 1-25 : 11

Neobisium (Blothrus) georgecastriotae Ćurčić ,

Dimitrijević and Rađa, 2006 ( Fig. 2C )

P u b l i s h e d d a t a: 2 2: Pusi i Zylihasë cave, 12.viii.2003, 1 ñ, 1 ò, leg. Rađa T., Vujčić-Karlo S. ( Ćurčić et al. 2006b); 28: cave, 10.viii.2003, 1 ñ, 1 ò, 1 T, leg. Rađa T., Vujčić-Karlo S. ( Ćurčić et al. 2006b); 50: cave, 11.viii.2003, 1 ò, leg. Rađa T. ( Ćurčić et al. 2006a); 51: cave, 2.viii.1994, 1 T, leg. Didonna F. ( Gardini 2018); 52: cave, 3.viii.1994, 1 ò, leg. Didonna F. ( Gardini 2018).

European distribution: Albania ( Ćurčić et al. 2006a b).

Notes: Neobisium georgecastriotae inhabits caves and pits and belongs to the species of highly-specialised cave dwellers ( Ćurčić et al. 2006a b). It is considered as an endemic relict form of the Albanian Dinaric karst ( Ćurčić et al. 2006a). Specimens from caves near the localities Gjirokäster and Kurvelesh were originally described as a new endemic species Neobisium albanorum Ćurčić, Dimitrijević, Rađa and Vujčić-Karlo, 2006 ( Ćurčić et al. 2006b), later proposed as a synonym of N. georgecastriotae ( Gardini 2018) .

Figures

Fig. 2. Distribution of the Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae taxa in Albania. A, Chthonius gjirokastri (red colour), Chthonius jonicus (orange colour), Chthonius rhodochelatus (green colour), Chthonius tenuis (blue colour), Globochthonius argirocastronis (yellow colour). B, Ephippiochthonius rogoi (red colour), Ephippiochthonius serbicus (green colour), Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus (yellow colour). C, Neobisium albanicum (purple colour), Neobisium doderoi (orange colour), Neobisium georgecastriotae (yellow colour), Neobisium latellai (red colour), Neobisium sylvaticum (blue colour), Neobisium valsuanii (green colour), Neobisium cf. vjetrenicae (brown colour), Neobisium sp. 1 (grey colour). D, Neobisium cephalonicum (red colour), Neobisium fuscimanum (blue colour), Neobisium hellenum (grey colour), Neobisium sublaeve (orange colour), Neobisium sp. 2 (green colour), Roncus lonai (purple colour), Roncus lubricus (brown colour), Roncus spp. (yellow colour). Circles indicate the published data, stars indicate the new data. For the locality codes, see table 1.