Creeping Big Brown Pilbara Slater
Buddelundia
FP-11812 (SJ 64)
Discoverer: S. Judd (2023)
Fauna Portal species: 11812
Buddelundia FP-11812 female, lateral (HBI N29405-6; 30 km SSE of Mount Delphine, Western Australia)
Image: A. Greenhill (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6645Diagnosis
Animal only moderately convex, head generally wide with frontal shield divided into upper and lowers sections by a transverse groove, upper part very straight and narrow. Antenna long. Distal margin of pereonite 1 not 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. Endolobe on pereonite 2 very small and notch-like. Grooves on the ventral surface of pereonites 5, 6 & 7 distinctive (Fig. 6622).
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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