Euro-Mediterranean fauna of Campodeinae (Campodeidae, Diplura)
Author
Sendra, Alberto
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Coleccions Torres-Sala i Siro de Fez, Servei de Patrimoni Històric, Ajuntament de València, València, Spain. 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.
alberto.sendra@uv.es
Author
Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S.
338DE845-4839-4EF5-B684-587C021F076C
asreboleira@fc.ul.pt
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European Journal of Taxonomy
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Campodea
(
Campodea
)
fragilis
Meinert, 1865
Campodea
(
Campodea
)
fragilis
Meinert, 1865
: figs 12–22, table 14.
Diagnosis
(
Silvestri 1912
;
Bareth 2006
)
Body length 3.0–5.0 mm; epicuticle with microdenticles; clothing setae short to middle sized, smooth or with apical barbs; antennae with 18–22 antennomeres; large sensillum of third antennomere in dorsal position; short (
ma
,
la
) and long (
lp
) poorly barbed notal macrosetae; short marginal setae with long apical barbs; 1+1
la
macrosetae on V urotergite; 1+1
la
, 1+1
lp
on VI–VII urotergites, 3+3
lp
on VIII urotergite and 5+5
lp
on IX abdominal segment; cerci shorter than body with 9–13 articles bearing two to four whorls of short macrosetae with one apical barb and numerous short clothing setae; small spermatozoid fascicles, 35 μm diameter and 15–20 μm wide, spiral filament with 4 spirals, 450 μm long and 1–1.5 μm in diameter.
Habitat and distribution
Species with a strong preference for beds in watercourses, up to the level of the water. It has been collected in alluvial subsurface habitats (
Sendra
et al.
2017a
).
C.
(
C.
)
fragilis
is a widespread species, in Europe alone it has been quoted from 400 localities (Supplementary file 1). It occurs from the Euro- Mediterranean zone to North America (
Silvestri 1933b
;
Condé, 1956a
,
1973
;
Bareth & Condé 1958
;
Condé & Geeraert 1962
). In the northern territories, it has been found in the British Isles (
Bagnall 1918b
) and in the southern Scandinavian Peninsula (
Silvestri 1912
;
Börset 1968
;
Olsen 1996
); in continental Europe from
France
to
Poland
(
Denis 1930
;
Wygodzinsky 1941b
;
Condé 1947h
;
Paclt 1956
,
1961a
;
Stach 1964
), in the Pyrenees (
Condé & Mathieu 1957
), in the Iberian Peninsula (
Sendra & Moreno 2004
), in the Italian Peninsula (
Ramellini 1995
,
2000
), in the Anatolian Peninsula (Sendra
et al.
2006), and, finally, in N Africa (
Algeria
;
Condé
1947g
) and the Canary Islands (
Sendra & Baez 1986
).