Campodea (Campodea) basiliensis Wygodzinsky, 1941

Campodea (Campodea) basiliensis Wygodzinsky, 1941a: 127, figs 34–39.

Diagnosis (Wygodzinsky 1941a; Condé & Mathieu 1957)

Body length 2.5 mm; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 19–24 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; thin, middle-sized barbed notal macrosetae; lp metanotal much shorter than lp mesonotal; short with apical long barbs notal marginal setae; 1+1 ma macrosetae on I– VII urotergites, 1+1 la on 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; cerci shorter than body with 10–11 articles covered in long macrosetae with barbs and a few clothing setae, but with swollen latero-interior macrosetae in proximal articles.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species found scattered from the Basin of Paris to the French Pyrenees (Condé 1947d, 1947h, 1951a; Condé & Mathieu 1957), as well as in eastern Germany and the Swiss Alps (Wygodzinsky 1941a; Christian 2003).