Campodea (Campodea) silvestrii Bagnall, 1918

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Campodea (Campodea) silvestrii Bagnall, 1918

Fig. 49

Campodea staphylinus Silvestri, 1912 nec Westwood, 1842: 114, figs II–III.

Campodea (Campodea) silvestrii Bagnall, 1918b: 110 , fig. 7a.

Diagnosis ( Silvestri 1912; Bareth 2006)

Body length 2.8–4.1 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 19–25 antennomeres; small sensilla of third antennomere in dorsal position; short (ma, la) and long (lp) barbed notal macrosetae; short with apical long barbs notal marginal setae; 1+1 la macrosetae on urotergite V, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on VI–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; males without glandular a 2 - setae; cerci as long as body with 15–17 articles covered in long, thin macrosetae with thin barbs along distal half and a few clothing setae, and latero-inside smooth macrosetae or with one distal barb.

Taxonomic notes

The studied material (Supplementary file 2) has allowed to draw nota ( Fig. 49 ).

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species widely spread from the British Isles ( Bagnall 1918b) to the South of the Scandinavian and Jutland peninsulas in the North of Europe ( Silvestri 1912; Agrell 1944), throughout Central Europe ( Silvestri 1912; Wygodzinsky 1941b; Paclt, 1951, 1956; Condé & Bareth 1998) and East of Europe ( Stach 1928, 1964), including the Dinaric Mountains ( Blesić 1984, 1996, 2000b) and towards the south in the Balkan Peninsula ( Condé 1984) and to the borders of the Italian Peninsula ( Wygodzinsky 1941b).

Figures

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.