Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) fagei Condé, 1955

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 : 48-49

Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) fagei Condé, 1955

Figs 51–52

Plusiocampa fagei Condé, 1955b: 129 , figs 3d, 4.

Diagnosis ( Condé 1955b)

Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 39–48 antennomeres; 21 complex olfactory chemoreceptors in cupulifrom organ; protruding frontal process with non-tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; sparse notal clothing setae. Two or three ventral tibial macrosetae; unequal claws (1.25) with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a backward overhang. Urotergites I–II with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 0+0–1+1 la, 2+2 post macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 2+2–4+4 post macrosetae; urotergites V–VII with 1+1 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8 post macrosetae; urosternite I with 6+6–8+8, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male with a narrow area of glandular g 1 setae and very long cylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae; female with thin subcylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae.

Remarks

Two specimens from Cova Sa Gleda, Manacor, Mallorca (see Table S 2 in Supplementary Material) were used for SEM to look at some features that are difficult to observe under an optical microscope, such as their thin gouge sensilla, 48–50 µm long with an external transversal striped surface ( Figs 51–52 ).

Habitat and distribution

Subterranean species inhabiting 19 caves in Mallorca, Balearic Islands, mainly in the Tramuntana mountain chain on the north of the island.

Figures

Figs 51–52. Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) fagei Condé, 1955, from Cova Sa Gleda, Manacor, Mallorca Island (Coll. AS). 51. Lateral distal side of a medial antennomere. 52. Detail of a gouge sensillum.