Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) baetica Sendra 2004
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 baetica

description: Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa) baetica Sendra, 2004
Figs 12–23
Plusiocampa baetica Sendra in Sendra et al., 2004: 114, figs 1–4, tables 1–4.
Diagnosis (Sendra et al. 2004)
Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 39 antennomeres; 12 very complex olfactory chemoreceptors in a large cupuliform organ; protruding frontal process with tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum 1+1 with ma, 2+2 lp macrosetae; metanotum without macrosetae; short, barbed notal macrosetae except pronotal lp; sparse smooth clothing setae. Two ventral tibial macrosetae; slightly unequal claws (1.16) with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a short backward overhang. Urotergites V–VI with 1+1 la, 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite VII with 1+1 la, 2+2–3+3 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 5+5–6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8 post macrosetae; urosternite I with 8+8, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male with a narrow area of glandular g 1 setae, with subcylindrical appendages similar to those of female, with glandular a 1 setae.
Remarks
SEM observations have shown several taxonomical features to complete the original description (Sendra et al. 2004). Each olfactory chemoreceptor shows a spiral fold with a central cylindrical structure, all with a multiporous surface, all tightly open to the exterior through a small opening (Figs 12, 14–15), surrounded by tiny coniform sensilla (Figs 12–13) that are present in the whorl of thin gouge sensilla on each medial and distal antennomere (Figs 16–17). Tibia longer than femur and tarsus (Fig. 18). Pretarsus with subequal claws with large lateral crests, the claws carved by longitudinal ridges and a micro-tuberculated surface (Figs 20, 22–23). Lateral process smooth, with several thin basal barbs (Figs 22–23). Stylar setae with abundant barbs (Fig. 21). Male with subcylindrical appendages with only glandular a 1 setae and a narrow area of glandular g 1 seate (Fig. 19).
Habitat and distribution
Subterranean species known only from Nerja Cave, a touristic cave in the internal zone of the Baetic Mountain Range, southern Iberian Peninsula.
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 28-31, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.591, http://zenodo.org/record/3659823