Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) festae Silvestri 1932
Creators: name: Sendra, Alberto
name: Antić, Dragan
name: Barranco, Pablo
name: Borko, Špela
name: Christian, Erhard
name: Delić, Teo
name: Fadrique, Floren
name: Faille, Arnaud
name: Galli, Loris
name: Gasparo, Fulvio
name: Georgiev, Dilian
name: Giachino, Pier Mauro
name: Kovac, L'ubomír
name: Lukić, Marko
name: Marcia, Paolo
name: Miculinić, Kazimir
name: Nicolosi, Giuseppe
name: Palero, Ferran
name: Paragamian, Kaloust
name: Pérez, Toni
name: Polak, Slavko
name: Prieto, Carlos E.
name: Turbanov, Ilya
name: Vailati, Dante
name: Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Diplura
Campodeidae
Plusiocampa
Plusiocampa festae

description: Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) festae Silvestri, 1932
Plusiocampa festae Silvestri, 1932: 75, figs x–xi.
Plusiocampa festae coi Silvestri, 1932: 78.
Diagnosis (Silvestri 1933a; Condé 1984a)
Slightly troglomorphic species. Antennae with 25 and 35 antennomeres. Non-protruding frontal process with non-tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; abundant notal clothing setae. Two (rarely three) ventral tibial macrosetae; subequal claws (1.1) with large lateral crests; posterior claw with no backward overhang. Urotergites I–II with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 1+0 la, 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 2+2– 3+3 post macrosetae; urotergites V–VII with 1+1 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 7+7 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 9+9 post macrosetae; urosternite I with 7+7, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male with an area of glandular g 1 setae and enlarged appendages with glandular a 1 setae.
Remarks
The studied material (see Table S 2 in Supplementary Material) from MSS habitats was collected from inland Greece. Three specimens from Évia show variability in the number of post macrosetae on the third urotergite; they have 2+1, 2+2 and 3+3 post macrosetae, showing the dubious value of the subspecies P. (P.) festae coi. In addition, a juvenile from Montes Orno, Crete, has also been studied and it matches in all chaetotaxic characters with P. (P.) festae festae. In conclusion, we suggest that P. (P.) festae coi should be synonymized with the nominate subspecies.
Habitat and distribution
Soil-dwelling species previously found on Karpathos and Leros, islands of the Dodecanese Archipelago; also collected in endogean environments at two sites on Crete and at a locality near Izmir, Anatolia, Turkey. It seems to inhabit MSS, where it has also been found at 14 localities in continental Greece.
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-138 in European Journal of Taxonomy 591 on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.591, http://zenodo.org/record/3659823