Galeriella liciniana, a new cave genus and species of springtails (Collembola, Sminthuridae) from Herzegovina

near Trebinje, Herzegovina, one of us (IMK) collected two male specimens of a peculiar sminthurid taxon which, after a thorough study, appears to be a new genus and species. The new form is phenetically closest to the genus Disparrhopalites Stach, 1956 (otherwise present in Europe; C a s s a g n a u and D e l a m a r e D e b o u t e v i l l e, 1953; F a n c i u l l i et al., 2005). Additionally, it exhibits some similarities with another genus, Pararrhopalites Bonet and Teler, 1947, which inhabits Africa, Asia and the Americas. In the present paper, we describe a new genus and species of these sminthurid collembolans. This is their first finding both in Herzegovina and on the Balkan Peninsula. The type specimens are housed in the collection of the Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.