Campodea (Dicampa) frenata Silvestri, 1931

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 71-72

Campodea (Dicampa) frenata Silvestri, 1931

Fig. 53

Campodea (Dicampa) frenata Silvestri, 1931: 97 , figs I–II.

Diagnosis ( Silvestri 1931b; Rusek 1964; Paclt 1969)

Body length 4.2–4.5 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 22–27 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; middle-sized, robust notal macrosetae almost completely covered with barbs (thin and with a few barbs in Slovakian specimens; Rusek 1964); thin pine cone notal marginal setae; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp macrosetae on VI–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci shorter than body with 12 articles covered in long smooth macrosetae.

Taxonomic notes

The studied material (Supplementary file 2) has allowed to draw the nota ( Fig. 53 ).

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species occasionally found in caves ( Silvestri 1931b; Condé & Bareth 2001), distributed around the Carpathians Mountains ( Ionescu 1955; Rusek 1964), extending towards the south throughout the Balkan Mountains ( Paclt 1969; Blesić 1984, 2000b).

Figures

Figs 52–53. –52. Campodea (Campodea) wallacei Bagnall, 1918, ♀, 3.9 mm, from Geneva, Switzerland, pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum. – 53. Campodea (Dicampa) frenata Silvestri, 1931, ³, 4.2 mm, from Sinaia, Romania, pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum.Abbreviations: see Material and methods. Scale bar: 52 = 0.2 mm; 53 = 0.1 mm.