Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) aff. schweitzeri Condé, 1947

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 : 82

Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) aff. schweitzeri Condé, 1947

Differential diagnosis against the type form

The five studied specimens from Karakaya Cave in Turkey (see Table S 2 in Supplementary Material) share the same macrosetal distribution found in the specimens from Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the exception of 7+7 post macrosetae on urotergite VIII and 9+9 post macrosetae on abdominal segment IX. Furthermore, two other important features separate these two forms, i.e., the shape of the claws (subequal claws and posterior claw with no backward overhang in the form from Karakaya Cave) and features of the frontal process (simple frontal process without tubercular setae in specimens from Karakaya Cave). However, more material is needed to describe these specimens with different features from Karakaya Cave, Mihalliçik as a new species.

Habitat and distribution

Subterranean species found in five caves of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Dinaric Mountains. The aff. form was found in a cave in the northeast of the Anatolian Peninsula.