Bunbury Black-legged Woodland Slater Buddelundia nigripes (Budde-Lund, 1912)
Fauna Portal species: 12438
Buddelundia nigripes female, lateral (HBI N32243-2; Neerabup, Western Australia)
Image: A. Greenhill (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6666Diagnosis
Brownish-purple in colour and usually with distinctive cream patches giving a blotchy appearance. Pereopods and pleopods exopodites with very dark brown pigments matching the appearance of animal. Frontal shield without transverse groove. Frontal line a single, well-defined line in smooth arc. Posterior lateral corner of pereonal epimeron 1 produced with a kink at junction with thickened lateral margin of epimeron 1. Interlocking structures on pereonite 1 and 2 refer to photographs. Pereonite 1 without sulcus arcuatus.
The specimens illustrated here have been identified by comparison with type material at the Natural History Museum, London. Identification of this species is not possible using the the original description by Budde-Lund (1912).
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1912): Oniscoidea, nachgelassenes Fragment. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. 4: 17 - 44
(2004): Terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) and biogeographical patterns from south-western Australia. Ph.D. Thesis, Edith Cowan University, 489 pp.,