Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) corcyraea corcyraea Silvestri, 1912

Plusiocampa corcyraea Silvestri, 1912: 142, figs xxvii–xxviii.

Diagnosis (Silvestri 1912; Condé 1947a, 1984a)

Non-troglomorphic species. Antennae with 18–21 antennomeres. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae. Two ventral tibial macrosetae; small subequal claws with small lateral crests, posterior claw with no backward overhang. Urotergites I–II with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 2+2 post macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 3+3 post macrosetae; urotergites V–VII with 1+1 la, 4+4 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 enlarged appendages with glandular a 1 setae.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species found at two localities on Kerkyra (Corfu), one of the main Ionian islands, and at three localities in continental Greece, in the Epirus region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula.