Two new species of the genus Nemaspela Šilhavý from caves in Georgia (Opiliones Nemastomatidae) Author Martens, Jochen Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Organismische und Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie (iomE), D- 55099 Mainz, Germany; Senckenberg Research Institute, Arachnology, D- 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Author Maghradze, Eter Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia Author Barjadze, Shalva Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-07 4951 3 541 558 journal article 7383 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.7 a6ee038f-4cda-4f38-8fde-8ad0efec8f0f 1175-5326 4668453 EB876346-4282-4B4E-8585-ED50F1A616E4 Key to the currently known Nemaspela species in the Caucasus area (based on male specimens) 1 Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article present.................................................. 2 - Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article absent................................................... 7 2 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article short, just an inconspicuous, short, pointed distad-directed lobe; found in several caves in the Sochi area, Russia and Abkhazia , West Georgia ............ N. abchasica ( Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963 ) - Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer, distinctly elevated, not only a short lobe....................... 3 3 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article; found in several caves in Nalchik area, Kabardino-Balkaria , Russia ...................................................... N. kovali Chemeris, 2009 - Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article shorter than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article........................... 4 4 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article globular and knob-like, found in one cave in Abkhazia , Georgia ......................................................................................... N. gagrica Tchemeris, 2013 - Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly elongated, longer than broad.............................. 5 5 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article slender, sickle-shaped, pointed, with distal-directed concavity, longer than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Abkhazia , West Georgia .............. N. birsteini Ljovuschkin, 1972 - Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not sickle-shaped, shorter or conspicuously longer than breadth of article at its position............................................................................................. 6 6 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly bent forward, shorter than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Imereti region , West Georgia ................................................. N. prometheus sp. nov. - Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not distinctly bent forward, longer than breadth of article at its position, apophysis distally widened and two-lobed; found in caves in Sochi area, Russia .... N. sokolovi ( Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963 ) 7 Femur of pedipalp S-shaped; found in one cave in Kvemo-Svaneti Region, West Georgia ....................................................................................................... N. femorecurvata Martens, 2006 - Femur of pedipalp not S-shaped but stretched out; found in one cave in Imereti region , West Georgia ..... N. melouri sp. nov.