Campodea (Campodea) rhopalota Denis, 1930

Figs 30, 48

Campodea (Campodea) rhopalota Denis, 1930: 23, figs 1–6.

Diagnosis (Denis 1930; Bareth 2006)

Body length 4.0–5.0 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; middle-sized clothing setae with a few barbs; antennae 21–24 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; short (ma, la) and long (lp) robust barbed notal macrosetae; thin pine cone notal marginal setae; 0 or 1+1 ma macrosetae or sma submacrosetae on I–VII urotergites; 1+1 la on V, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on VI–VII, 1+1 mp, 3+3 lp on VIII and 1+1 mp, 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; male with two separated areas of glandular g 1 -setae; cerci with 7–8 articles covered in long macrosetae with distal barbs but swollen latero-interior macrosetae on proximal articles and a few clothing setae; spermatozoid fascicles with 55–60 μm diameter and 20–25 μm thick, spiral filament with 2½ to 3 spirals, 350–400 μm long and round section 1.5 μm in diameter.

Taxonomic notes

The studied material (Supplementary file 2) has allowed to draw the nota (Fig. 48).

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species spreading from the Langres Plateau in northeast France near the French Pyrenees (Denis 1930; Husson 1946; Condé 1947h; Pagés 1951), through the Swiss to eastern Austrian Alps (Wygodzinsky 1941b; Christian 1992).