Common Pilbara Brown Slater
Buddelundia
FP-11777 (SJ 14FM-c)
Discoverer: S. Judd (2023)
Fauna Portal species: 11777
Buddelundia FP-11777 female, lateral (HBI N26395-6; 31 km NW Mujina, Western Australia)
Image: A. Greenhill (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6766Diagnosis
Uniformly dark brown, often with brown-pigmented pereopods and/or pleopod exopodites. Moderately convex, head generally wide with frontal shield divided into upper and lower sections by a transverse groove. Distal margin of pereonite 1 not thickened or only slightly thickened and lacking true schisma. Pereonite 1 with epimera border angled backward and extending much further backwards than inner lobe in lateral view inner lobe.
Terrestrial isopods of this type are found in the Pilbara region and are relatively common and widespread there. There are likely numerous species. The morphological work required to determine species is at a preliminary stage and consequently this species can only be diagnosed by molecular methods (COI barcoding).
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
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