Cunaxa jatoiensis Bashir and Afzal

Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, Kamran, Muhammad & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2025, New species and a new record of the genus Cunaxa Von Heyden (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from Saudi Arabia, Journal of Natural History 59 (13 - 16), pp. 929-939 : 936

Cunaxa jatoiensis Bashir and Afzal ( Figures 10–17 )

Cunaxa jatoiensis Bashir and Afzal 2006, p. 58

Material examined

Two females, Senna spp. ( Fabaceae ), Wadi Rahab, Asir, Saudi Arabia, 18.9.343°N, 42.15.356°E, 1 March 2024, coll. E.M. Khan.

Global distribution

Pakistan ( Bashir and Afzal 2006), Saudi Arabia (present study).

Remarks

The Saudi specimens of C. jatoiensis mostly follows the original description of the species by Bashir and Afzal (2006), except for the following few variations; gnathosoma and palp mostly smooth with very few dots visible (vs both the gnathosoma and palp dotted); dorsal setae f1 short, not reaching to the base of setae h1 (vs f1 extending beyond the bases of h1), coxae IV with 2 setae (vs coxae IV with 1 seta). Bashir and Afzal (2006) described the presence of 1 seta on coxae IV; however, 2 setae are illustrated and the dorsal pores ip present posterolaterally on hystersomal shield (vs present posteromedially of the hysterosomal shield).

Figures

Figures 10–13. Cunaxa jatoiensis Bashir and Afzal. Female. 10. Dorsal propodosoma; 11. dorsal hysterosoma; 12. dorsal hysterosoma posteriorly; 13. dorsal pores im on posterolateral margin of hysterosomal shield.

Figure 14–15. Cunaxa jatoiensis Bashir and Afzal. Female. Venter.

Figures 16–17. Cunaxa jatoiensis Bashir and Afzal. Female. 16. Chelicerae; 17. Gnathosoma showing uncinate apophysis on telofemora.