Campodea (Dicampa) plagiaria Silvestri, 1932

Table 2

Campodea (Dicampa) plagiaria Silvestri, 1932b: 83, figs VI–VII.

Diagnosis (Silvestri 1932b)

Body length 4–5 mm; epicuticle with microsenticles; short clothing setae; antennae with 26–28 antennomeres; sensillum in ventral position; short notal macrosetae with a few distal barbs except the long lp macrosetae with barbs along distal two-thirds; short thin pine cone notal marginal; 1+1 la macrosetae on V urotergite; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on VI–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci with 12 articles covered with long macrosetae with barbs and a few clothing setae.

Taxonomic notes

A cave-adapted population of C (D) aff. plagiaria found in a cave in the northeast of Morocco (Supplementary file 2) has a body length of 4.3–6.4 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; clothing setae with a tiny distal barb; up to 49 antennomeres with up to 12 complex olfactory chemoreceptors in its cupuliform organ; sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position; short (ma, la) and long (lp) barbed notal macrosetae; long thin pine cone notal marginal setae; more than 27 articles in an incomplete cercus; elongated appendages (see Table 2). A non-cave-adapted population of C. (D.) plagiaria was found at the entrance of a cave in the extreme south of the Iberian Peninsula that allows to complete the original description with some unknown taxonomic features.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species found at a single locality in the Rif Mountains, Morocco (Silvestri 1932a). A caveadapted form and a non-cave-adapted population have been found at the entrance of a cave in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Iberian Peninsula (250 km from the type locality in North Africa).