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Female: head deeply sunk in thorax, anterolateral margin of head with pair of notches; anterior margin of frontal lamina concave; merus of pereopod 1 with broad and long projection ventrally; pereopods 5 and 6 with large gap between them; pleomeres 1\u20134 each with subovate biramous pleopods; each pleopod with peduncle, becoming smaller posteriorly; pleotelson with mushroom-shaped end. Male: pleon subovate with anal cone distally. The present species is the 14\n                    <jats:sup>th<\/jats:sup>\n                    member of the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Athelges<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and the second species from Asia. This is the second species of\n                    <jats:italic>Athelges<\/jats:italic>\n                    infesting\n                    <jats:italic>Diogenes edwardsii<\/jats:italic>\n                    . We also provide a partial sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene (658 bp), mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene (482 bp), and nuclear 18S rRNA (724 bp) as a DNA barcode for the species. We show by molecular phylogenetic analysis that the present species is distinct from\n                    <jats:italic>A. takanoshimensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1270.160197","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]],"date-time":"2026-02-25T12:14:52Z","timestamp":1772021692000},"page":"207-222","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A new species of Athelges (Crustacea, Isopoda, Epicaridea, Bopyridae) from Japan, with morphological and DNA barcode data"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1270","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-2086-5372","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Haruki","family":"Shinoda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Japan"},{"name":"Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4018-5727","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Hiroki","family":"Fujita","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8411-1389","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Kenji","family":"Toyota","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan"},{"name":"Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan"},{"name":"Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-0109-1289","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Tomoyuki","family":"Nakano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2524-7160","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Michitaka","family":"Shimomura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"160197_B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/15685403-bja10252"},{"key":"160197_B2","unstructured":"Boyko CB, Hadfield KA, Merrin KL, Ota Y, Poore GCB [Eds.] (2025a) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans Database. 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