Recifella bifida 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 : 371-372

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.17041467

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2C2787CE-FF89-FF2D-C98A-F8FB3887C10A

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scientific name

Recifella bifida Cook, 1986
status

 

Recifella bifida Cook, 1986

Fig. 5D View FIGURE 5

Material examined. Northern Territory. 1/0/0, Walker Creek   GoogleMaps , Litchfield NP, 13°04.694 S 130°41.929 E, alt. 161 m asl, 25-ix-2005. Queensland. 2/1/0, Elliot Creek at Fruit Bat Falls, Cape York Peninsula , 11°26.370 S 142°26.086 E, 72 m asl, 19-x-2014; 2/8/0, Canal Creek at Twin Falls, Cape   GoogleMaps York Peninsula   GoogleMaps , 11°22.976 S 142°24.788 E, 54 m asl, 20-x-2014; 7/5/0, Jardine River, Cape York Peninsula   GoogleMaps , 11°09.070 S 142°21.335 E, 7 m asl, 22-x-2014, 1/0/0 dissected and slide mounted; 6/14/0, Jacky Jacky Creek, Jardine River   GoogleMaps NP, 11°01.381 S 142°23.277 E, 16 m asl, 22-x-2014.

Remarks. Recifella bifida can easily be separated from all other Recifella species by the three specialized setae in the middle of IV-leg-5, which are much shorter than the other setae and are bifurcate as illustrated in Fig. 5D View FIGURE 5 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Unionicolidae

Genus

Recifella

SubGenus

Recifellida

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