Campodea (Campodea) ilixonis Denis, 1932

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 39

Campodea (Campodea) ilixonis Denis, 1932

Campodea colladoi Silvestri, 1932a .

Campodea (Campodea) ilixonis Denis, 1932b: 599 , figs 1–3, table I.

Diagnosis ( Denis 1932b; Bareth 2006)

Body length 2.4–4.0 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; middle-sized, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 20–23 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; short (ma, la) and long (lp), poorly barbed notal macrosetae; marginal setae short and smooth or with a few apical barbs; 1+1 short ma macrosetae on I–VII urotergites, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on V–VII urotergites, 1+1 mp, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 1+1 mp, 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; male with two separated areas of glandular g 1 -setae; cerci covered in long macrosetae with distal barbs and a few clothing setae but with swollen latero-interior macrosetae on proximal articles.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species with a preference for the upper layers of the soil (O and A horizons). It extends from the centre and west of the Pyrenees towards the Basque and the Cantabrian Mountains ( Denis 1932b; Condé & Mathieu 1957; Sendra & Jiménez 1983). The presence of this species outside those regions should be further revised with new material ( Blesić 1984, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1997 b, 1998a, 1998 b, 2000b; Ionescu 1955; Christian 2003).