Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942

Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942: 32, figs 10–19.

Diagnosis (Wygodzinsky 1942; Sendra et al. 2010)

Body length 3.5 mm; short clothing setae; antennae with 24–25 antennomeres; sensilla of third antennomere in ventral position; 1+1 ma macrosetae on metanotum; short (ma, la) and long (lp), barbed notal macrosetae; short marginal setae with a few barbs; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp macrosetae on V–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; male without glandular g 1 - setae, appendages with glandular a 1 and a 2 -setae; cerci covered in long barbed macrosetae and a few clothing setae, but latero-inside macrosetae slightly enlarged, a bit swollen.

Taxonomic notes

A close related form of C. (C.) galilaea, named as C. (C.) aff. galilaea, has been described from Sardinia

Island (Bareth 1980) and found in Liguria, NW Italy (Supplementary file 2) characterized by less

antennomeres (19–21), with 1+1 lp macrosetae on V urotergite and a complete area of glandular g 1 -setae; nevertheless, more samples would be needed to confirm the separation of this Sardinian population from

the f. typ.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species found at three localities in the southeast of the Mediterranean region: Degania, near the Galilea Sea (Israel, former Palestine) (Wygodzinsky 1942); Lebanon (Condé 1947f) and DiyarbakIr (Turkey) (Sendra et al. 2010). A different form is known from Sardinia Island (Bareth 1980) and northwestern Italy.