Campodea (Paurocampa) suensoni Tuxen 1930
Creators: name: Sendra, Alberto
name: Fiera, Cristina
name: Selfa, Jesús
name: Stoev, Pavel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplura
Campodeidae
Campodea
Campodea suensoni

description: Campodea (Paurocampa) suensoni Tuxen, 1930
Fig. 8 a – f
Material examined.
Romania • 3 ♂, 1 ♀, 4 juvs, Bârgău Mountains: Leșu, Bistrița-Năsăud County, 47.289248 ° N, 24.756708 ° E, 749 m, beach, rarely fir, litter, 02. 11. 2021, C. Fiera leg.; • 2 juvs, Bârgău Mountains: near Ilva Mică, Bistrița-Năsăud County, 47.328709 ° N, 24.702183 ° E, 494 m a. s. l., beach forest, litter, 02. 11. 2021, C. Fiera leg.; • 1 ♀, Bârgău Mountains: Tureac, site 8, Bistrița-Năsăud County, 47.257365 ° N, 24.857551 ° E, 872 m a. s. l., beach forest, soil, 03. 11. 2021, C. Fiera leg.; • 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Făgăraș Mountains: Nucșoara, Argeș County, 45.417893 ° N, 24.733326 ° E, 1196 m a. s. l., mixed forest (Fagus sylvatica, Betula pendula, Alnus viridis, Sambucus sp.), litter, 10. 11. 2021, C. Fiera and I. Vicol leg.; • 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 2 juvs, Suceava County: Iacobeni, 47.446179 ° N, 25.311171 ° E, 895 m a. s. l., mixed forest (fir, larch, hornbeam), soil and litter, C. Fiera leg.; • 1 ♀, Argeș County: near Râușor Lake, 45.397983 ° N, 25.056427 ° E, 431 m a. s. l., rocks, soil, 26. 07. 2020, C. Fiera leg.; • 3 ♀, 6 ♂, 20 juvs and one specimen kept for DNA, Bârgău Mountains: Tureac, site 1, Bistrița-Năsăud County, 47.257408 ° N, 24.856696 ° E, 862 m a. s. l., beech forest, soil, 18. 08. 2018, C. Fiera leg.; • one juv., Bistriţa-Năsăud County: Valea Străjii near Tiha Bârgăului, 47.211925 ° N, 24.879244 ° E, 701 m a. s. l., beech forest, soil, 18. 08. 2018, C. Fiera leg.; • 2 ♀, Zarand Mountains, site 1, Căsoaia, near Arăneag, Arad county, 46.225324 ° N, 21.764489 ° E, 226 m a. s. l., mixed forest (Abies alba, Fagus sylvatica, Quercus frainetto, Carpinus betulus, Acer campestre), soil, 10. 11. 2020, C. Fiera and I. Vicol leg. Bulgaria • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 3 juvs, Pirin Mountains, above Bansko, 41.77552 ° N, 23.439216 ° E, elevation 1784 m, spruce forest, soil, 13. 08. 2018, leg. C. Fiera; • 2 ex., Pirin Mt., Popina laka Lake, 18 km from Sandanski 1200–1400 m a. s. l., 15. 06. 1988. P. Beron leg.
Taxonomic notes.
Observations under electronic scanning microscope shown several taxonomic morphological characters in details: short gouge sensilla on antennomeres (Fig. 8 a); trichobothria with large embase (Fig. 8 b); male urosternite I (Fig. 8 c) with subspherical appendages, each with an apical field containing glandular a 1 setae in addition to a continuous posterior field of g 1 glandular setae arranged in several rows; and, urosternites I – VII with short stylus and large exerted vesicles with two differentiated cuticle areas (Fig. 8 d-f).
Habitat and distribution.
A soil-dwelling species that is found also at the entrances of caves and in their deeper zones when abundant organic matter is available (Condé 1974; Sendra et al. 2012). It is common and well-distributed in Central and Eastern Europe (Tuxen 1930; Condé, 1954, 1966; Paclt and Rusek 1961; Condé 1956; Rusek 1965 b; Paclt 1961, 1969; Blesić 1984, 1997, 2000 b, 2001; Christian 1992; Sendra et al. 2012), extending its distribution southward into central Italy (Condé 1966; Ramellini 2000).
description: Published as part of Sendra, Alberto, Fiera, Cristina, Selfa, Jesús & Stoev, Pavel, 2025, Soil campodeids (Diplura, Campodeidae) of Eastern Europe, in Romanian and Bulgarian reliefs, pp. 261-282 in ZooKeys 1224 on pages 261-282, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1224.137935