Campodea (Dicampa) aemula Condé, 1953

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 66

Campodea (Dicampa) aemula Condé, 1953

Campodea (Dicampa) aemula Condé, 1953b: 365 , fig. 2a–i.

Diagnosis ( Condé 1953b; Sendra 1989b)

Body length 2.0–3.0 mm; epicuticle with abundant microdenticles; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 17–18 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position; short (ma, la) with a few barbs and long barbed (lp) notal macrosetae; 1+1 ma macrosetae on I urotergite, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci shorter than body covered in short barbed macrosetae and abundant short, smooth setae, in adittion to swollen or truncated latero-interior macrosetae on the basal article.

Habitat and distribution

A soil-dwelling species adapted to the B horizon of the soil, having a Baetic-Riffean distribution, from East Morocco ( Condé 1953b) to the Maestrazgo Massif in the eastern Iberian Mountains ( Sendra 1989b; Sendra & Moreno 2006).