Cestocampa gasparoi Bareth, 1988

Cestocampa gasparoi Bareth, 1988

Cestocampa gasparoi was the first troglomorphic species of the genus to be described from a subterranean environment ( Bareth 1988). It was described on the basis of a single male 4.8 mm long and without cerci. This specimen has long antennae with 27 and 29 antennomeres, a big cupuliform organ on the apical antennomere with 12 or 13 sensilla, and more developed tergal crests on the claws than on the endogean species C. italica and C. balcanica . Bareth (1988) mistakenly wrote that the three subapical setae of the tarsus were glabrous in C. gasparoi , but with thin barbs in C. balcanica . On the contrary, the two dorsal subapical setae ( sda, sdp) are glabrous in both species and only the lateral subapical seta of C. balcanica has very thin barbs, as in the sla2 and the ssa setae. In C. gasparoi , the sla2 and ssa setae have some very short barbs. The appendages of urosternite I have a latero-internal field of about 50 long, thin glandular a2-setae, but lack glandular setae on the posterior margin of urosternite I. Urosternite I has 7+7 macrochaetae.