Plusiocampa ( Plusiocampa ) magdalenae Condé, 1957

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 : 72

Plusiocampa ( Plusiocampa) magdalenae Condé, 1957

Plusiocampa magdalenae Condé, 1957: 9 , fig. 1.

Diagnosis ( Condé 1957, 1961, 1983; Bareth 2006)

Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 31–33 antennomeres; ten olfactory chemoreceptors in cupuliform organ; non-protruding frontal process with non-tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2–3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 (2+2) la, 2+2 lp, 0+1 mp (1+0 smp) macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 smp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; sparse notal clothing setae. Three or four ventral tibial macrosetae; slightly unequal claws with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a small backward overhang. Urotergite I with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite II with 1+1–2+2 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 2+2–3+4 post macrosetae; urotergite IV with 2+2 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite V with 3+3 la, 5+5–5+4 post macrosetae; urotergite VI with 3+3 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VII with 3+3 la, 4+5–5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8 post macrosetae; thick clothing setae on abdominal segments IX–X; urosternite I with 7+7, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male unknown; female appendages slightly enlarged, from subcylindrical to conical in shape, with glandular a 1 setae.

Habitat and distribution

Subterranean species found in two adjacent caves, Grotte du Pertuis and Trou Miette, north of Méailles, Alpes de Haute-Provence, southeastern France.