Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) exsulans Condé, 1947

Sendra, Alberto, Antić, Dragan, Barranco, Pablo, Borko, Špela, Christian, Erhard, Delić, Teo, Fadrique, Floren, Faille, Arnaud, Galli, Loris, Gasparo, Fulvio, Georgiev, Dilian, Giachino, Pier Mauro, Kovac, L'ubomír, Lukić, Marko, Marcia, Paolo, Miculinić, Kazimir, Nicolosi, Giuseppe, Palero, Ferran, Paragamian, Kaloust, Pérez, Toni, Polak, Slavko, Prieto, Carlos E., Turbanov, Ilya, Vailati, Dante & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 591, pp. 1-138 : 48

Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) exsulans Condé, 1947

Plusiocampa exsulans Condé, 1947a: 27 , fig. 5.

Diagnosis ( Condé 1947a, 1955a, 1966; Bareth 1988)

Non-troglomorphic species. Antennae with 21–25 antennomeres; four simple olfactory chemoreceptors in cupuliform organ; non-protruding frontal process with non-tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; smooth notal clothing setae. Two ventral tibial macrosetae. Small subequal claws (1.05) with middle-sized lateral crests, posterior claw with no backward overhang. Urotergites I–II with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 2+2 post macrosetae; urotergites IV–V with 1+1 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergites VI–VII with 2+2 (2+1) la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8 post macrosetae; urosternite I with 7+7, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male with an area of glandular g 1 setae, subcylindrical enlarged appendages with glandular a 1 setae; female with slender subcylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae. Spermatozoid fascicle wheels with 1½ turns of 150 µm long and 10 µm diameter filament.

Remarks

The study of five specimens from two caves in Slovenia and Trieste, Italy, and one from Faedo San Michele, Trento, Italy (see Table S 2 in Supplementary Material) allowed the addition of information to the diagnosis.

Habitat and distribution

Hypogean species found in caves and frequently in soil. A total of 20 localities are reported from around Central Europe, from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the Italian and Dinaric Mountains, reaching Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the east and France towards the west, where it has been found in garden soils. This species is often found in urban soils, e.g., at ca 20 sites in Vienna ( Christian 1992). The presence of P. (P.) cf. exsulans on the Anatolian Peninsula ( Sendra et al. 2006) must be confirmed.