Species Australiodillo bifrons (Budde-Lund, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Armadillo bifrons Budde-Lund, G. 1885. Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria per Familias et Genera et Species descripta. Hauniae : Sumtibus Auctoria 320 pp. [38].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1921.10.18.814–21 1♂ 2♀, Rockhampton, QLD (as New Holland); BMNH 1956.10.10.118 1♀, Rockhampton, QLD (as New Holland); ZMUC CRU1573 4 specimens, Rockhampton, QLD (as New Holland); ZIL, Rockhampton, QLD (as New Holland).
• Cubaris spenceri Barnes, H.M. 1934. Cubaris spenceri, a new terrestrial isopod from the Northern Territory of Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 63-70 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Little Red Lily Swamp, Roper River, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dalens, H. 1990. Les Australiodillinae Vandel, 1973 (Isopoda, Oniscidea). Révision des espèces connues et description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce de Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 126: 25-34 [26]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

 

General References

Dalens, H. 1990. Les Australiodillinae Vandel, 1973 (Isopoda, Oniscidea). Révision des espèces connues et description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce de Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 126: 25-34 (redescription)

Goodyer, G.J. 1979. Slaters and pillbugs. N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, Entomology Branch, Insect Pest Bulletin 114: 1-6 (figures)

Green, A.J.A. in Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp. (record from Victoria)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED