Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) suspiciosa Condé & Mathieu, 1957

Sendra, Alberto, Antić, Dragan, Barranco, Pablo, Borko, Špela, Christian, Erhard, Delić, Teo, Fadrique, Floren, Faille, Arnaud, Galli, Loris, Gasparo, Fulvio, Georgiev, Dilian, Giachino, Pier Mauro, Kovac, L'ubomír, Lukić, Marko, Marcia, Paolo, Miculinić, Kazimir, Nicolosi, Giuseppe, Palero, Ferran, Paragamian, Kaloust, Pérez, Toni, Polak, Slavko, Prieto, Carlos E., Turbanov, Ilya, Vailati, Dante & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 591, pp. 1-138 : 91

Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) suspiciosa Condé & Mathieu, 1957

Plusiocampa suspiciosa Condé & Mathieu, 1957: 467 , fig. xi, 45–52.

Diagnosis ( Condé & Mathieu 1957)

Non-troglomorphic species. Antennae with 20–21 antennomeres; four olfactory chemoreceptors in cupuliform organ; non-protruding frontal process with non-tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3–2+1 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; sparse smooth notal clothing setae. Two or three ventral tibial macrosetae; subequal small claws with small lateral crests, posterior claw with no backward overhang. Urotergites I–II with 2+2 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 4+4 post macrosetae; urotergites IV with 2+2 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergites V–VII with 3+3 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8 post macrosetae; urosternite I with 7+7, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male unknown; female with subcylindrical to conical appendages with glandular a 1 setae.

Habitat and distribution

The locatity of this species is still not clear, as a label confusion may have occurred between two localities, one endogean habitat in France (Tarn-et-Garonne, La Capelle-Livran, Caylus) and a small cave in Sicily (Scaletta Zanclea, south of Messina).