Abstract
Two species and one subspecies of Roncus L. Koch, 1873, new to science (R. tintilin n. sp., R. trojan n. sp., and R. trojan strahor n. ssp.), collected in eastern and southeastern Serbia, Yugoslavia, are described, diagnostic characters are illustrated, and their distribution is given.
Highlights
The taxa described in this paper are probably endemic and relict forms which inhabit epigean habitats in the eastern and southeastern parts of Serbia
The variety of cave-dwelling species of Roncus, described elsewhere by Curcic (1991), offers further proof that this genus is presently subjected to intensive radiation, or divergent differentiation into new
It is possible that the presence or absence of this character may be useful in distinguishing representatives of two species groups, which we designate here as the "Roncus lubricus” and “R. parablothroides” group, respectively. It seems that both groups are widespread in Europe (Curcic et al, 1992); their precise taxonomie and biogeographic features are insufficiently known
Summary
1873 (Neobisiidae), are presently known from Serbia, Yugoslavia: Roncus aff. Material from three samples of pseudoscorpions collected in 1989 and 1991 is examined. Specimens studied from Mt. Rtanj, near the village of Rujiste, eastern Serbia, belong to a new species: Roncus tintilin n. The samples from Lepterija, near Soko Banja, and from the village of Poganovo, near Dimitrovgrad, both in southeastern Serbia, consist of two new taxa: Roncus trojan n. The taxa described in this paper are probably endemic and relict forms which inhabit epigean habitats in the eastern and southeastern parts of Serbia.
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