Mesogastrura ojcoviensis (Stach, 1919)

Arbea 1, Javier I., Lopez 2, Virginia Garcia, Soria 2, Francisco Javier & Abellan 2, Pedro, 2021, Collembola from Hundidero-Gato Cave in Southern Spain, with the description of a new species of Entomobrya Rondani, 1861 (Collembola, Entomobryidae), Subterranean Biology 38, pp. 77-90 : 77

Mesogastrura ojcoviensis (Stach, 1919)

Mesogastrura ojcoviensis New Sierra de Grazalema ( Málaga) record.

Material studied.

Cueva del Gato , twilight zone, 27-III-2016 , 16 ex; dark zone, 14-IV-2016, 1 ex, 13-XI-2016, 2 ex, 4-X-2018, 25 ex; cave galleries, 14-IV-2016, 1 ex, 30-IX-2016, 1 ex.

Edaphic and troglophilous, guanophilous species. This is a common European species in the caves of the Iberian Peninsula ( Spain and Portugal) and the Balearic Islands ( Jordana et al. 1997).