Cunaxa womersleyi Baker & Hoffmann, 1948

Elgoni, Nasreldeen Ahmed, Mirza, Jawwad Hassan & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2025, A new species and a new record of the genus Cunaxa von Heyden (Prostigmata, Cunaxidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a key to the world species, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 174602-e 174602 : e174602-

Cunaxa womersleyi Baker & Hoffmann, 1948

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS 25 - Cun-Cun- 1 ; recordedBy: E. M. Khan, N. A. Elgoni and H. M. S. Ali; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: DF202137-485D-5933-8988-56DD21B8847B; Taxon: scientificName: Cunaxa womersleyi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Cunaxidae ; genus: Cunaxa ; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Jazan; locality: Faifa ; verbatimCoordinates: 17°15.123'N 43°6.352'E; decimalLatitude: 17.25204; decimalLongitude: 43.10587; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Nasreldeen Ahmed Elgoni; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: samplingProtocol: Soil collection; eventDate: 23/2/2025; habitat: Soil under Ziziphus sp.; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS 25 - Cun-Cun- 2 ; recordedBy: E. M. Khan, N. A. Elgoni and H. M. S. Ali; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: B1680152-5BF1-5E95-829D-CEF3E31D8DBA; Taxon: scientificName: Cunaxa womersleyi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Cunaxidae ; genus: Cunaxa ; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Jazan; locality: Faifa ; verbatimCoordinates: 17°15.123'N 43°6.352'E; decimalLatitude: 17.25204; decimalLongitude: 43.10587; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Nasreldeen Ahmed Elgoni; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: samplingProtocol: Soil collection; eventDate: 23/2/2025; habitat: Soil under Ziziphus sp.; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS 25 - Cun-Cun- 3 ; recordedBy: E. M. Khan, N. A. Elgoni and H. M. S. Ali; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 69E2FD80-1DAC-50A7-8A62-4D26C055B14D; Taxon: scientificName: Cunaxa womersleyi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Cunaxidae ; genus: Cunaxa ; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Jazan; locality: Faifa ; verbatimCoordinates: 17°15.123'N 43°6.352'E; decimalLatitude: 17.25204; decimalLongitude: 43.10587; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Nasreldeen Ahmed Elgoni; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: samplingProtocol: Soil collection; eventDate: 23/2/2025; habitat: Soil under Ziziphus sp.; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: KSMAAS 25 - Cun-Cun- 4 ; recordedBy: E. M. Khan, N. A. Elgoni and H. M. S. Ali; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 0A5C3D35-22B3-5B25-94C0-1933DF501408; Taxon: scientificName: Cunaxa womersleyi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Arachnida; order: Prostigmata; family: Cunaxidae ; genus: Cunaxa ; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Jazan; locality: Faifa ; verbatimCoordinates: 17°15.123'N 43°6.352'E; decimalLatitude: 17.25204; decimalLongitude: 43.10587; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Nasreldeen Ahmed Elgoni; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: samplingProtocol: Soil collection; eventDate: 23/2/2025; habitat: Soil under Ziziphus sp.; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Mites; basisOfRecord: Slide Mounted Specimen

Description

Remarks

The Saudi population of C. womersleyi is morphologically similar to the original description of the species ( Baker and Hoffmann 1948).

Distribution

Mexico ( Baker and Hoffmann 1948), Taiwan ( Tseng 1980), USA ( Smiley 1992), Saudi Arabia (present study).