| Summary: | The following taxa are new to the fauna of Uzbekistan: Australobius Chamberlin, 1920, A. magnus (Trotzina, 1894), Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941, H. plumatus Zalesskaja, 1978, Lithobius praeditus Zalesskaja, 1975, and L. javanicus (Zalesskaja, 1978). Order Lithobiomorpha is new to the Qashqadaryo and Surxondaryo regions of Uzbekistan; A. magnus is new to the Talas, Jalal-Abad, Chuy, and Batken regions of Kyrgyzstan. All the records are mapped. I wish to thank Muhammadto'ychi Rahimov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan) and Roman V. Yakovlev (ASU) for organizing the expedition. I am grateful to Alexander A. Fomichev (ASU) who donated the material and to Mariia A. Iuzhakova (Tomsk, Russia) who checked the English of an advanced draft. I wish to thank anonymous reviewers for corrections and critical commenting of the manuscript. This study was supported in the framework of "Priority-2030" Program by the Altai State University
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