ISOPODA-ASELLOTA FROM TURKEY COLLECTED IN 1987

Asellus aquaticus is present in 19 of about 100 Turkish ground-water s tations prospected during biospeleological explorations. All specimens of these stygophilic populations remain oculate, even though their in tegumental pigmentation is more or less reduced. Proasellus lykaonicus Argano & Pesce, 1978 has been found again in a second cave, nearby th e type locality. A large and endemic, stygobiont species, Proasellus p isidicus n. sp., from phreatic groundwater, Vilayet Burdur, and the mi nute Proasellus-pamphylicus n. sp. from interstitial waters of the eas tern part of Vilayet Antalya are described. The stygobiont proasellids of Asia Minor, P. lykaonicus and P. pisidicus n. sp. belong to the sa me phylogenetic strain of Proasellus as those of Transcaucasia, Lebano n, and the Balkan Peninsula. Some Janiroidea of the genus Microparasel lus are recorded from three inland groundwater localities. Finally, Ja era aff. massiliensis apparently enters fresh waters in a littoral psa mmic locality.