Campodea (Campodea) tuxeni Wygodzinsky, 1941

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 60

Campodea (Campodea) tuxeni Wygodzinsky, 1941

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Campodea (Campodea) tuxeni Wygodzinsky, 1941c: 137 , fig. 1.

Diagnosis ( Wygodzinsky 1941c)

Body length 3.0– 5.5 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; clothing setae short, thick and smooth or with a few thin distal barbs; antennae with 27–33 antennomeres; large sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; long robust barbed notal macrosetae; thin pine cone notal marginal setae; one trochanteral sensillum; 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; cerci as long as body covered in long barbed macrosetae and a few clothing setae.

Habitat and distribution

Should be considered a soil-dwelling species, despite having been recorded for the first time in the Postojana Cave in Slovenia ( Tuxen 1930; Wygodzinsky 1941c), this species is spread thourghout the Alps ( Condé 1954), Moravia ( Rusek 1964) and the Carpathian Mountains ( Sendra et al. 2012).

Figures

Figs 5–6. Campodeidae in their natural environment. 5. Campodea (Campodea) tuxeni Wygodzinsky, 1944, Hartelsgraben valley, Hieflau, Styria, Austria (photograph by Christian Komposch). 6. Campodea (Campodea) maestrazgoensis Sendra & Escolà, 2004 in Cova del Mas Nou cave, Coves de Virrromà, Castellò, Iberican Mounta in Range, East of the Iberian Peninsula (photograph by Sergio Montagud).