Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) dalmatica Condé, 1959

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 : 97-98

Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) dalmatica Condé, 1959

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Plusiocampa dalmatica Condé, 1959: 48 , fig. 2.

Diagnosis ( Condé 1959; Bareth 1988; Condé & Bareth 1996)

Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 41–47 antennomeres; numerous sheet-shaped complex olfactory chemoreceptors in cupuliform organ; protruding frontal process with tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3–4+4 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; long, barbed notal clothing setae. No ventral tibial macrosetae; unequal claws with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a backward overhang. Urotergite III with 0+0–1+1 (1+0) la macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 0+1 post macrosetae; urotergite V with 1+1 la, 4+4 (3+4) post macrosetae; urotergites VI–VII with 1+1 la, 4+4 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 5+5–6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8– 9+9 (10+9) post macrosetae. Urosternite I with 14+15–21+20, urosternites II–VII with 9+9–12+12, urosternite VIII with 2+2–3+3 macrosetae. Male with lateral expansions of posterior margin occupied by an area of glandular g 1 setae in adults (no expansion in juveniles and little expansion in young males), subcylindrical appendages without glandular a 2 setae; female with subcylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae.

Remarks

The studied material (see Table S 2 in Supplementary Material) allowed us to make additions to the diagnosis (Coll. AS).

Habitat and distribution

Subterranean species well distributed around the northwestern Dinaric Mountains, found in 18 caves ( Figs 205 , 208 ).

Figures

Figs 205–206. 205. Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) dalmatica Condé, 1959 and the beetle Parapropus vitorogensis Ćurčić et al., 2012 (Leptodirini) feeding on a dead cave cricket, Troglophilus sp., in Vaganska pećina, Bosnia and Herzegovina (photo: Slavko Polak). 206. Paratachycampa hispanica Bareth & Condé, 1981, from Cirat Cave, Castellón, Spain (photo: Sergio Montagud).

Figs 207–208. 207. Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) nivea (Joseph, 1882), from Košanski spodmol (n. 902) Obrov, Podgrad, Slovenia (photo: Fulvio Gasparo). 208. Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) dalmatica Condé, 1959, from Grotta Bac, VG 49, 400 m a.s.l., Trieste, Italy (photo: Fulvio Gasparo).