title: Description of two new species related to Pterostichus (Aphaonus) arcanoides Lorenz, 1998 from the West Transcaucasia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini).
abstract: Two new carabid beetle species, Pterostichus (Aphaonus) mariamae sp. nov. and Pterostichus (Aphaonus) svetlanae sp. nov., related to an enigmatic mountainous representative of the subgenus Aphaonus, P. (Aphaonus) arcanoides Lorenz, 1998, are described from the Abkhazian midlands (Tsebelda Plateau and Mtsara district). Discriminative features of the new species in the subgenus are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Kuban State Agrarian University, Kalinin St. 13, Krasnodar 350044, Russia Adyghei State University, Pervomayskaya St. 208, Maykop 385000, Republic of Adygheya, Russia; Email: a_zamotajlov@mail.ru.
authors.forename: Alexandr S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Zamotajlov
authors.affiliation: Vitebsk State P.M. Masherov University, Moskovskyi prospect 33, Vitebsk 210038, Belarus.; Email: iasolodov@mail.ru.
authors.forename: Igor A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Solodovnikov
authors.affiliation: Russian Entomological Society, Kuban Branch, Kalinin St. 13, Krasnodar 350044, Russia.; Email: biologne@mail.ru.
authors.forename: Dmitriy D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Fominykh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005846:Georgia (Republic); D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity; D014154:Transcaucasia