Macarorchestia roffensis (Wildish, 1969)

Wildish, David J., 2014, New genus and two new species of driftwood hoppers (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae) from northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal regions, Zoosystematics and Evolution 90 (2), pp. 133-146 : 133-134

Macarorchestia roffensis (Wildish, 1969)

Macarorchestia roffensis : Wildish 1969: 288; Lincoln 1979: 212; Wildish 1987: 571, as Orchestia remyi roffensis or Orchestia roffensis ; Ruffo 1993: 739.

Material examined.

Male holotype (BMNH 1968:64), one female allotype (BMNH 1968:65) and 416 paratypes of all life history stages (BMNH 1968:66). Collected by D.J.Wildish(DJW) in August 1968, 0.2 km upstream from Chatham Ness in Limehouse Reach, Medway estuary, near Rochester, Kent, U.K.

Distribution.

Besides the type locality one other locality in the Medway estuary was found in 1968 with a few specimens in a driftwood log by DJW. The location was ~ 0.6 km upstream from the old Rochester Bridge in Tower Reach on the eastern shore. A few specimens collected by DJW in 1999 from the Swale, in Ferry Reach ~ 0.5 Km northwest of Kingsferry Bridge on the mainland shore.

Epidermal pigment patterns.

Absent.

Remarks This is the second smallest Macarorchestia . The type locality was destroyed during reclamation of Frindsbury marsh as an industrial estate.