Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) dallai Bareth & Condé, 1984

Plusiocampa dallai Bareth & Condé, 1984: 138, fig. 3.

Diagnosis (Bareth & Condé 1984)

Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 32 antennomeres; 8 complex olfactory chemoreceptors with an atypical multi-sheet shape in cupuliform organ; protruding frontal process with 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 macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; thin, barbed notal clothing setae. Three ventral tibial macrosetae; unequal claws (1.25) with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a backward overhang. Urotergites I–III with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergites V–VII with 2+2 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 unknown, female with subcylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae.

Habitat and distribution

Subterranean species only known from Grotta di Montenero, in the Gargano Promontory part of the Apulia Carbonate Platform, Italian Peninsula.