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Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae)
Este artículo contiene 138 páginas, 213 figuras, 14 tablas.Diplura is a group of entognathous hexapods, often considered a sister group to insects. They
play an important role in recycling organic matter in soil and subterranean terrestrial ecosystems. The
Campodeidae is the most diverse family, divided into four subfamilies. The subfamily Plusiocampinae
has a subterranean life-style with many species distributed in the Euro-Mediterranean area. The incertae
sedis tachycampoids (“lignée Tachycampoïde”) is a group within the family Campodeidae that share
with the Plusiocampinae a strong preference for subterranean habitats and several morphological
characters, such as slender body shape, elongated appendages, considerable increment in the number of
antennomeres and cercal articles, and complexity of sensorial structures. The present monograph provides
a taxonomic revision of the subfamily Plusiocampinae and the genera belonging to the tachycampoid
lineage from Europe and the Mediterranean region. It comprises detailed morphological descriptions
and illustrations together with data on the habitats and distributions of 87 species, 10 subspecies and
11 affinis forms. Seven new species are described among those, namely: Plusiocampa (Plusiocampa)
apollo Sendra, Giachino & Vailati sp. nov., P. (P.) chiosensis Sendra & Gasparo sp. nov., P. (P.) dublanskii
Sendra & Turbanov sp. nov., P. (P.) hoffmanni Sendra & Paragamian sp. nov., P. (P.) rhea Sendra
sp. nov., P. (P.) ternovensis Sendra & Borko sp. nov. and P. (Venetocampa) ferrani Sendra & Delić
sp. nov.DS’s field trips were funded by the
Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Grant 173038); KP was partially funded
by the HISR project “Conservation of the Cave Fauna of Greece” funded by the MAVA Foundation
and WWF Greece; PMG and DV carried out sampling in Greece using permits from the Ministry of
Environment no. 124085/1362/2015, 135366/373/2016 and 166238/248/2018; IT was funded within
the framework of the state assignment of FASO Russia (themes no. АААА-А18-118012690106-7 and
АААА-А18-118012690105), supported in part by RFBR (project no. 17-54-40017Абх_а); sampling
efforts by AF and colleagues resulted from various projects on the evolution of cave fauna diversity, some
of them funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG (DFG FA 1042/1-1 and DFG BA 2152/14-1);
PMG and DV were partly supported by the program “Research Missions in the Mediterranean Basin”
sponsored by the World Biodiversity Association onlus XLI contribution; ASPSR was supported by
a research grant (15471) from Villum Fonden.Peer reviewe