Campodea (Dicampa) propinqua Silvestri, 1932

Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 728, pp. 1-130 : 77

Campodea (Dicampa) propinqua Silvestri, 1932

Campodea (Dicampa) propinqua Silvestri, 1932a: 138 , fig. X.

Diagnosis ( Silvestri 1932a)

Body length 2.6 mm; short clothing setae; antennae with 23 antennomeres; short ma and la notal macrosetae with 1-4 distal barbs, long, well–barbed lp notal macrosetae; short thin pine cone notal marginal setae; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp macrosetae on VI–VII urotergites, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci shorter than body with 10 articles covered with long barbed macrosetae and a few smooth clothing setae. Specimens from a scree slope in Sierra Guadarrama (Central System Range in the central Iberian Peninsula) ( Sendra et al. 2017a) show antennae with 27 and 29 antennomeres and seven olfactory chemoreceptors inside cupuliform organ.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species known from a unique locality in the western Subbaetic Mountains, southern Iberian Peninsula ( Silvestri 1932a), and inhabiting colluvial scree slopes in central Iberia. The quotations of this species in Romania ( Ionescu 1951, 1955) and Italy ( Ramellini 1990) should be carefully revised with new material.