Campodea (Campodea) silvestrii Bagnall, 1918

Fig. 49

Campodea staphylinus Silvestri, 1912 nec Westwood, 1842: 114, figs II–III.

Campodea (Campodea) silvestrii Bagnall, 1918b: 110, fig. 7a.

Diagnosis (Silvestri 1912; Bareth 2006)

Body length 2.8–4.1 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 19–25 antennomeres; small sensilla of third antennomere in dorsal position; short (ma, la) and long (lp) barbed notal macrosetae; short with apical long barbs notal marginal setae; 1+1 la macrosetae on urotergite V, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on VI–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; males without glandular a 2 - setae; cerci as long as body with 15–17 articles covered in long, thin macrosetae with thin barbs along distal half and a few clothing setae, and latero-inside smooth macrosetae or with one distal barb.

Taxonomic notes

The studied material (Supplementary file 2) has allowed to draw nota (Fig. 49).

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species widely spread from the British Isles (Bagnall 1918b) to the South of the Scandinavian and Jutland peninsulas in the North of Europe (Silvestri 1912; Agrell 1944), throughout Central Europe (Silvestri 1912; Wygodzinsky 1941b; Paclt, 1951, 1956; Condé & Bareth 1998) and East of Europe (Stach 1928, 1964), including the Dinaric Mountains (Blesić 1984, 1996, 2000b) and towards the south in the Balkan Peninsula (Condé 1984) and to the borders of the Italian Peninsula (Wygodzinsky 1941b).