Campodea (Campodea) rhopalota Denis, 1930

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 54

Campodea (Campodea) rhopalota Denis, 1930

Figs 30 , 48

Campodea (Campodea) rhopalota Denis, 1930: 23 , figs 1–6.

Diagnosis ( Denis 1930; Bareth 2006)

Body length 4.0–5.0 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; middle-sized clothing setae with a few barbs; antennae 21–24 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; short (ma, la) and long (lp) robust barbed notal macrosetae; thin pine cone notal marginal setae; 0 or 1+1 ma macrosetae or sma submacrosetae on I–VII urotergites; 1+1 la on V, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on VI–VII, 1+1 mp, 3+3 lp on VIII and 1+1 mp, 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; male with two separated areas of glandular g 1 -setae; cerci with 7–8 articles covered in long macrosetae with distal barbs but swollen latero-interior macrosetae on proximal articles and a few clothing setae; spermatozoid fascicles with 55–60 μm diameter and 20–25 μm thick, spiral filament with 2½ to 3 spirals, 350–400 μm long and round section 1.5 μm in diameter.

Taxonomic notes

The studied material (Supplementary file 2) has allowed to draw the nota ( Fig. 48 ).

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species spreading from the Langres Plateau in northeast France near the French Pyrenees ( Denis 1930; Husson 1946; Condé 1947h; Pagés 1951), through the Swiss to eastern Austrian Alps ( Wygodzinsky 1941b; Christian 1992).

Figures

Figs 29–34. – 29–32. Campodea (Dicampa) melici Sendra, 2015. 29. ♀, ventral side of abdomen. 30. ³, ventral side of abdomen. 31. ♀, first urosternite. 32. ♀, apical portion of first urosternite appendage. – 33–34. Podocampa aff. fragiloides from Portugal caves. 33. ³, first urosternite. 34. ³, apical portion of a first urosternite appendage. Abbreviations: a , a , g = glandular setae.

Figs 48–49. –48. Campodea (Campodea) rhopalota Denis, 1930, ³, 4.0 mm, from Geneva, Switzerland, pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum. – 49. Campodea (Campodea) silvestrii Bagnall, 1918, ♀, 2.9 mm, from Greece, pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum. Abbreviations: see Material and methods. Scale bar: 0.1 mm.