Campodea (Campodea) tuxeni Wygodzinsky, 1941

Fig. 5

Campodea (Campodea) tuxeni Wygodzinsky, 1941c: 137, fig. 1.

Diagnosis (Wygodzinsky 1941c)

Body length 3.0– 5.5 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; clothing setae short, thick and smooth or with a few thin distal barbs; antennae with 27–33 antennomeres; large sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; long robust barbed notal macrosetae; thin pine cone notal marginal setae; one trochanteral sensillum; 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; cerci as long as body covered in long barbed macrosetae and a few clothing setae.

Habitat and distribution

Should be considered a soil-dwelling species, despite having been recorded for the first time in the Postojana Cave in Slovenia (Tuxen 1930; Wygodzinsky 1941c), this species is spread thourghout the Alps (Condé 1954), Moravia (Rusek 1964) and the Carpathian Mountains (Sendra et al. 2012).