Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942

Tusun, Sadreddin & Özbay, Cengizhan, 2010, New species, new records, and distribution of Campodeidae (Diplura) in Anatolia, Zootaxa 2639, pp. 40-52 : 42

Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942

Material examined. 1 ɗ, 1 Ψ, Diyarbakır city centre, Kampüs, 2-V-2005, A. Satar leg.

Each of two intact antennae had 25 articles and a latero-ventral sensillum. The adult male’s body length was 3 mm, but lacked observable spermatozoid fascicles. Urosternite I lacked g1 -setae and the lateral appendages of urosternite I possessed glandular a1 and a2 setae.

This species was described ( Wygodzinsky 1942) from Degania, near the Sea of Galilee ( Israel, former Palestine), from females only, but Condé (1947) reported on males from Lebanon. The Lebanese males were young, without g1 -setae on urosternite I. Bareth (1980) tentatively described specimens from Sardinia as Campodea cf. galilaea , which differed from the type specimens by the lack of macrochaetae la on urotergite V and the presence of both glandular g1 - and a2 - setae on the male urosternite I.

Our new observations contradict the assignment of the Sardinian specimens to C. galilaea , which probably represent a separate species. The known range of C. galilaea remains the eastern Mediterranean region.