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Litocampa drescoi

  • 1. Coleccions Torres-Sala i Siro de Fez, Servei de Patrimoni Històric, Ajuntament de València, València, Spain.
  • 2. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 København Ø, Denmark. & Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Enviromental Changes (cE 3 c), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Description

Litocampa drescoi (Condé, 1949)

Plusiocampa drescoi Condé, 1949: 572, fig. 2b.

Litocampa drescoi Paclt 1957: 26.

Diagnosis (Condé 1949c; Condé & Mathieu 1957; Sendra 1988)

Body length 3.0–5.0 mm; thick, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 29–36 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position; cupuliform organ with 6–11 complex olfactory chemoreceptors; 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 1+1 lp macrosetae on pronotum and mesonotum and 1+1 ma, 1+1 lp on metanotum; long, barbed notal macrosetae; long with distal barbs notal marginal setae; one dorsal femoral macrosetae; calcars barbed one side along their length; one ventral tibial macroseta; smooth subapical tarsal setae; subequal grooved elbow-like claws with small smooth lateral crests, smooth setiform telotarsal processes; 1+1 ma macrosetae on I–VII urotergites, 2+2 lp on V–VII urotergites, 1+1 ma, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 1+1 mp, 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; male with glandular g 1 -setae, subcylindrical enlarged appendages without glandular a

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-setae.

Habitat and distribution

Cave-dwelling species that has also been found in the MSS of scree slopes at high altitude (Condé & Mathieu 1957). It is distributed throughout caves in the centre of the Pyrenees spreading at low altitudes at both sides of the mountain range (Condé 1949c; Sendra & Escolà 2004).

Notes

Published as part of Sendra, Alberto & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura), pp. 1-130 in European Journal of Taxonomy 728 on page 99, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.728.1181, http://zenodo.org/record/4316883

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Conde
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diplura
Family
Campodeidae
Genus
Litocampa
Species
drescoi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Litocampa drescoi (Conde, 1949) sec. Sendra & Reboleira, 2020

References

  • Paclt J. 1957. Diplura. Genera Insectorum 212 E. P. Wytsman, Crainhem.
  • Conde B. 1949 c. Description preliminaire d'un Campodeide cavernicole du Pays Basque Espagnol. Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle 2 eme serie 21: 569 - 573.
  • Conde B. & Mathieu A. 1957. Campodeides endoges de la region Pyreneenne. Vie et Milieu 8 (4): 439 - 472.
  • Sendra A. 1988. Taxonomia, Filogenia y Biogeografia de la Fauna de Campodeidos Iberica, Balear y Canaria (Hexapoda, Diplura, Campodeidae). PhD thesis, Biological Science Faculty, Valencia University, Spain.
  • Sendra A. & Escola O. 2004. Campodeides cavernicoles du nord-est de la peninsule Iberique. Revue suisse de Zoologie 111 (4): 889 - 914.