Campodea (Dicampa) transylvanica Sendra 2025, sp. nov.
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 transylvanica

description: Campodea (Dicampa) transylvanica Sendra sp. nov.
Figs 4 a-d, 5 a-c, 6 a, b
Type material.
Holotype. Romania • ♂; Turnu Roșu (Sibiu County), Făgăras Mountains (RO Carpathians), soil, 704 m. elevation; mixed forest (spruce, fir, beech) (predominant spruce); 11 November 2021, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg.; labelled holotype IBB -CTR 1. Paratypes. Romania • 1 ♀, 2 ♂♂, 2 juvs, Turnu Roșu, Făgăraş Mountains (RO Carpathians), Făgăraş, soil, 704 m elevation, mixed forest (spruce, fir, beech) (predominant spruce), 11 November 2021, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg., labelled IBB -CTR 2-5; • 1 ♀, Turnu Roșu, Făgăraş Mountains (RO Carpathians), litter, 704 m. elevation, mixed forest (spruce, fir, beech) (predominant spruce), 11 November 2021, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg., labelled IBB -CTR 6; • 1 ♂, Cârtișoara, Făgăras Mountains (RO Carpathians), litter, beach, 11 November 2021, Fiera C and Vicol I. leg., labelled IBB -CTR 7; • 3 ♀♀, Cârtișoara, Făgăras Mountains (RO Carpathians), soil, beach, 11 November 2021, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg., labelled NMNHS -10832-10834; • 1 juv., Radna (Arad County), Zarand Mountains (RO Carpathians), Quercus cerris, Q. frainetto, Betula pendula, 12 November 2020, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg., labelled IBB -CTR 8; • 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Conop (Arad County), Zarand Mountains (RO Carpathians), Quercus cerris, Q. frainetto, Acer campestre, Fagus sylvatica, Ligustrum vulgare, Robinia pseudoacacia, Sorbus sp., Carpinus betulus, Sorbus terminalis, 11 November 2021, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg., labelled IBB -CTR 9-10.
Other material.
Romania • 1 ♀, Turnu Roșu, Făgăraş Mountains (RO Carpathians), Făgăraş, soil, 704 m elevation, mixed forest (spruce, fir, beech) (predominant spruce), 11 November 2021, Fiera C. and I. Vicol leg, Coll AS.
Description.
Body. Length 1.9–2.7 mm in male; 2.3–3 mm in females; 1.4–1.7 mm in juveniles. Epicuticle with microdenticles under optical microscope (Fig. 5 a) and dense microdenticles under scanning electron microscope (Fig. 5 b, c); body with smooth short clothing setae (Fig. 5 a-c).
Head. Antennae with 15–19 antennomeres in juveniles and adults, 0.53–0.47 shorter than length of the body in juveniles and 0.45– 0.31 in adults; central antennomeres as long as wide with one proximal whorl of bifurcated macrosetae and one distal whorl of smooth macrosetae and uneven short smooth setae; in addition to a single distal whorl of ≤ 4–6 gouge sensilla of 5–6 µm long (Fig. 4 a-d). Proximal antennomeres with typical trichobothria disposition and with small bacilliform sensillum on third antennomere in dorsal position, between b – c macrosetae. Plain frontal process with one anterior macrosetae, longer than clothing setae. Three macrosetae each with two or three barbs along each side of insertion line of antennomere with length ratios of a / i / p, 11 / 13 / 14, respectively, in holotype. Large suboval labial palps, each with small latero-external sensillum near two gard setae and five normal setae on anterior portion, ≤ 60 neuroglandular setae in medial and posterior positions.
Thorax. Thoracic macrosetae distribution: pronotum has 1 + 1 ma, 1 + 1 la, 1 + 1 lp macrosetae; mesonotum has 1 + 1 ma, 1 + 1 la macrosetae (Figs 5 a, 6 a). All macrosetae longer than other setae with barbs in distal ½ – 3 / 4 marginal setae barbed and longer than clothing setae. Short legs, metathoracic legs reach border of fourth abdominal segment. Calcars with two or three long barbs in middle. Each tarsus with two separated ventral rows of slightly and thicker smooth setae among clothing setae. Three long smooth dorsal tarsal and one ventral setae. Subequal simple claws and with smooth lateral processes.
Abdomen. Distribution of abdominal macrosetae on tergites (Fig. 6 b) shows 1 + 1 la on V, 1 + 1 la, 1 + 1 lp on VI – VII; 3 + 3 lp on VIII and 5 + 5 lp on IX abdominal; la macrosetae with barbs in distal ½ – 1 / 3 and lp macrosetae bear barbs along distal 4 / 5. Urosternite I with 7 + 7 macrosetae; urosternites II to VII with 4 + 4 macrosetae; urosternite VIII with 1 + 1 macrosetae; urosternal macrosetae of bifurcated, tri or quadrifurcated. Stylus setae with smooth subapical setae, bifurcated ventromedial seta and with two long basal barbs on apical seta.
Secondary sex features. Female urosternite I with subcylindrical appendages, each bearing ≤ 12 glandular a 1 setae in apical field. Male urosternite I with subtrapezoidal appendages, each with apical field of ≤ 17 glandular a 1 setae; a continuous posterior field of ≤ about 100 g 1 glandular setae arranged in 1–3 rows. Two incomplete cerci with basal article plus five primary articles. Internal smooth macrosetae or with one distal barb in proximal articles and other macrosetae with four or five distal barbs; primary articles with up to three whorls of barbed macrosetae, and uneven short smooth setae.
Taxonomic affinities.
The distribution of urotergal macrosetae in Campodea (Dicampa) transylvanica Sendra, sp. nov. from the Romanian Carpathians matches that of Campodea (Dicampa) plagiaria Silvestri, 1932 from the Baetic and Riff mountains (Silvestri 1932 b). However, Campodea (D.) transylvanica Sendra, sp. nov. differs from C. (D.) plagiaria in several taxonomic features: 15–19 antennomeres in Campodea (D.) transylvanica Sendra, sp. nov. instead of 26–28 antennomeres in soil populations of Campodea (D.) plagiaria; sensillum on the third antennomere in tergal position in C. (D.) transylvanica Sendra, sp. nov. instead of ventral in C. (D.) plagiaria; apical barbs on marginal notal setae in C. (D.) transylvanica Sendra, sp. nov. instead of thin pine marginal setae in C. (D.) plagiaria.
Etymology.
Named after Transylvania, a historical and cultural region in Central Europe that encompasses central Romania.
Habitat and distribution.
A soil-dwelling species that is found in mixed forests in Zarand and Făgăraș mountains. In two localities it co-occurs with Campodea (Dicampa) propinqua Silvestri, 1932.
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