Recifella doomba Cook, 1986

Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2025, New records of the genus Recifella K. Viets, 1935 from Australia, with the description of four new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Unionicolidae), Zootaxa 5679 (3), pp. 365-387 : 372

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5679.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E2D6545C-DBA6-47C5-B299-E577A6906994

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17041384

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2C2787CE-FF88-FF2D-C98A-FE703FCEC3EE

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scientific name

Recifella doomba Cook, 1986
status

 

Recifella doomba Cook, 1986

Figure 5C View FIGURE 5

Material examined. Queensland. 3/6/0, Lake Moondarra, Mt Isa   GoogleMaps , 20°35.274 S 139°34.357 E, 8-x-2005; 1/3/0, Fletcher Creek   GoogleMaps , Dalrymple NP, 19°49.125 S 146°03.771 E, 260 m asl, 22-x-2005; 1/3/0, Porcupine Creek   GoogleMaps , Porcupine Gorge NP, 20°21.039 S 144°27.852 E, 23-x-2005; 1/3/0, Alligator Creek, pool, upstream, Bowling Green Bay   GoogleMaps NP, 19°26.740 S 146°58.471 W, 79 m asl, 11-xi-2014; 1/8/0, Little Yabba Creek at crossing with road Kenilworth-Maleny   GoogleMaps , 26°37.427 S 152°41.334 E, 98 m asl, 19-xi-2014, 1/0/0 dissected and slide mounted; 1/0/0, Kolan River crossing Gin Gin-Kalpowar Road   GoogleMaps , 24°44.348 S 151°28.339 E, 149 m asl, 29-xi-2014.

Distribution. New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Remarks. Recifella doomba is characterized by combination of a long, heavy distoventral seta on III-leg-5 with large pectinations, and IV-leg-5 with three specialized setae widely separated, with the most distal one located in the distal half of the segment, as illustrated in Fig. 5C View FIGURE 5 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Unionicolidae

Genus

Recifella

SubGenus

Recifellida

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