Slater Buddelundia hirsuta Dalens, 1992
Fauna Portal species: 2667
Buddelundia hirsuta, lateral (WAM C51708)
Image: Judd & Perina (2013; fig. 31)
Fauna Portal Image No. 1872Diagnosis
(after Judd & Perina 2013): This species was described by Dalens (1992) based on two specimens collected from the entrance of a cave in Cape Range. Although the Barrow Island specimens match Dalens’ description in most details, this species needs taxonomic revision against similar morphotypes in the genus. Buddelundia hirsuta is known only from Cape Range and Barrow Island. Its principal diagnostic characters are: frontal shield divided into upper and lower sections by a transverse groove; interlocking structures present on pereonites 2, 5, 6, and 7 and on pleonite 3; and dorsal surface covered in many long setae.
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(1992): Oniscidea (Crustacea, Isopoda) from caves of Cape Range in Western Australia. I. The genus Buddelundia. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 16: 87 - 102
(2013): An illustrated key to the morphospecies of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 83: 185 - 207