Campodea (Campodea) lankesteri Silvestri, 1912

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 40

Campodea (Campodea) lankesteri Silvestri, 1912

Campodea (Campodea) lankesteri Silvestri, 1912: 118 , figs VI–VII.

Diagnosis ( Silvestri 1912; Bareth 2006)

Body length 5.0–7.0 mm; epicuticle with thick microdenticles; long, thin, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 26–28 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position; middle-sized, robust notal macrosetae poorly barbed; long, poorly barbed marginal setae; 1+1 long ma macrosetae on I–IX urotergites, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on IV–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci with 8–9 articles covered in long, strong macrosetae with distal barbs and a few clothing setae; large spermatozoids fascicles with 60 μm in diameter and 30 μm thick, spiral filament with 9 spirals and 1000 μm long, flattened filament of 3–4 μm in larger side and cylindrical void inside.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species also collected in a few natural and artificial caves ( Leleup 1948; Bareth 2000a; Sendra et al. 2013). It has been found in the North of Europe on the the British Isles ( Bagnall 1915, 1918b; Good et al. 1989) and spreads throughout continental Europe from eastern France ( Condé 1947d; Condé & Barbier 1965), Belgium ( Bareth 2000a) to the Jutland Peninsula and the southern extreme of the Scandinavian Peninsula ( Agrell 1944), and across Central Europe ( Marten 1939; Christian 1992, 2003).