Litarachna poliacarus Pesic & Marshall 2026
Litarachna poliacarus Pešić & Marshall, 2026 Figure 2 Material examined— Brunei Darussalam, Pantai Tungku (south bay), artificial breakwater on sandy beach, 4.971299º N, 114.864833º E, collected from the algal turf, 8 November 2025, leg. Zawal, 1♀ dissected and slide mounted (RMNH), sequenced (Voucher Id: K134_2; BOLD Id: HYDPT240-26). Remarks —The examined female matches the description of L. poliacarus, a species recently described from an artificial breakwater at Pantai Tungku, Brunei (Pešić et al. 2026d). In the COI-based phylogenetic tree, the sequence obtained from the latter species was placed, albeit with very low bootstrap support, as the sister taxon to the L. smiti + L. samudra sp. nov. clade. Because the original description of Litarachna poliacarus lacked illustrations of the female palp, chelicera, and I-leg-5 and -6, these diagnostic details are provided here based on a newly collected female specimen. Distribution — Brunei.
Authors
- Andrzej Zawal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5838-6060)
- Aleksandra Bańkowska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1037-0550)
- VLADIMIR M. PESIC (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9724-345X)
- David J. Marshall
- FAREEHA IFTEKHAR (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9511-4447)
Institutions
- University of Szczecin (PL)
- Universiti Brunei Darussalam (BN)
- University of Montenegro (ME)
- University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (PK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23930209
- Primary Topic
- Study of Mite Species
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00