Campodea (Campodea) minor Wygodzinsky, 1944

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 45-47

Campodea (Campodea) minor Wygodzinsky, 1944

Campodea (Campodea) minor Wygodzinsky, 1944a: 503 , figs 1–9.

Diagnosis ( Wygodzinsky 1944a; Sendra & Moreno 2004)

Body length 1.3–2.8 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; short, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 13–19 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position; short (ma, la) and long (lp pronotal) barbed notal macrosetae; lp mesonotal and metanotal short similar to marginal setae; notal marginal setae short with apical barbs notal; 1+1 short ma macrosetae on I–VII urotergites; 0+0 or 1+1 la on V–VII urotergites, 0+0 or 1+1 lp on V–VI urotergites, 1+1 lp VII, 1+1 short ma, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite, 1+1 short ma, 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci three times shorter than body with 6 to 7 barrel-shaped articles covered in long macrosetae and a few clothing setae, with three types of latero- interior cercal macrosetae: smooth macrosetae with a few distal barbs, slightly swollen macrosetae or spine-shape macrosetae.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species well adapted to endogean habitats of B horizon, inhabiting also the crops. Its distribution limits are located around the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula in areas under the Atlantic climatic influence ( Sendra & Moreno 2004).