Campodea ( Campodea ) giardi Silvestri, 1912

Campodea ( Campodea) giardi Silvestri, 1912

Campodea ( Campodea) giardi Silvestri, 1912: 120 , fig. VIII.

Diagnosis ( Silvestri 1912; Bareth 2006)

Body length 3.5–4.5 mm; long, thin, smooth clothing setae; antennae with 22–29 antennomeres; sensillum of third antennomere in ventral position plus 1–4 sensilla on IV to VII antennomeres (in a few specimens these extra sensilla are absent); notal macrosetae long, thin and smooth or with 1–2 barbs; marginal setae long, poorly barbed with 1–2 barbs; one sensillum trochanteral; 1+1 long ma urotergal macrosetae with insertion backward towards marginal setae from urotergites I to VII; 1+1 la, 1+1 lp on V–VII urotergites; 1+1 mp, 3+3 lp on VIII urotergite and 1+1 mp, 5+5 lp on IX abdominal segment; cerci covered in macrosetae with some barbs and a few clothing setae; middle-sized spermatozoid fascicles,

55–60 μm diameter and 25 μm wide, spiral filament with 2–3 spirals, 240–360 μm long and 2.8–3.3 μm diameter in round section.

Habitat and distribution

Soil-dwelling species with a preference for mountain habitats. It was collected from the central and eastern Pyrenees ( Denis 1930; Condé & Mathieu 1957; Sendra & Jiménez 1986). Outside the Pyrenees, C. giardi is cited from two localities at Durham, NE England ( Bagnall 1915) and from two further localities in France: a mine of Gard and in a humid cave near Nancy ( Husson 1946), but Condé (1956a) considered that they needed to be revised.