Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 35-36

Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942

Campodea (Campodea) galilaea Wygodzinsky, 1942: 32 , figs 10–19.

Diagnosis ( Wygodzinsky 1942; Sendra et al. 2010)

Body length 3.5 mm; short clothing setae; antennae with 24–25 antennomeres; sensilla of third antennomere in ventral position; 1+1 ma macrosetae on metanotum; short (ma, la) and long (lp), barbed notal macrosetae; short marginal setae with a few barbs; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp macrosetae on V–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; male without glandular g 1 - setae, appendages with glandular a 1 and a 2 -setae; cerci covered in long barbed macrosetae and a few clothing setae, but latero-inside macrosetae slightly enlarged, a bit swollen.

Taxonomic notes

A close related form of C. (C.) galilaea , named as C. (C.) aff. galilaea , has been described from Sardinia

Island ( Bareth 1980) and found in Liguria, NW Italy (Supplementary file 2) characterized by less

antennomeres (19–21), with 1+1 lp macrosetae on V urotergite and a complete area of glandular g 1 -setae; nevertheless, more samples would be needed to confirm the separation of this Sardinian population from

the f. typ.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species found at three localities in the southeast of the Mediterranean region: Degania, near the Galilea Sea ( Israel, former Palestine) ( Wygodzinsky 1942); Lebanon ( Condé 1947f) and DiyarbakIr ( Turkey) ( Sendra et al. 2010). A different form is known from Sardinia Island ( Bareth 1980) and northwestern Italy.