Campodea (Campodea) subdives Silvestri, 1933

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 59

Campodea (Campodea) subdives Silvestri, 1933

Campodea (Campodea) subdives Silvestri, 1933a: 62 , figs I–II.

Diagnosis ( Silvestri 1933a)

Body length 3.0 mm; epicuticle without microdenticles; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 20 to 24 antennomeres (28–29 in female from cave in Mallorca Island; Vadell et al. 2007); sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position; short (ma, la) and long (lp) barbed notal macorsetae; short with apical long barbs notal marginal setae; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp macrosetae on IV–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci from Anatolian specimens covered in long macrosetae on basal articles, short macrosetae on medial and distal articles and numerous clothing; cerci from specimens of cave from Mallorca with long macrosetae with a few clothing setae.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species found in soil habitats at several localities scattered around the Mediterranean Basin: Rhodes Island ( Silvestri 1933a), northern Algeria ( Condé 1947g), Mallorca Island (Condé 1955c) and southeastern Taurus in the Anatolian Peninsula, Turkey ( Sendra et al. 2010). It was also found in an abandoned mine in Luxembourg ( Sendra et al. 2013) and a slightly cave-adapted specimen has been collected from a cave in Mallorca Island ( Vadell et al. 2007).