Spilaio Megalo Spilaio

Higher Geography

Region: Dytiki Ellada,
Sub-Region: Aitoloakarnania,
Municipality: Aktio - Vonitsa,
Closest Settlement: Monastiraki

Cave type

Natural

Fauna

• Anemadus strigosus (Kraatz, 1852), Giachino & Vailati 1993, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
• Caecomolopsis lebenbaueri Giachino, Allegro & Vailati, 2024, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Dolichopoda giachinoi Rampini & Di Russo, 2008, Rampini et al. 2008, Allegrucci et al. 2011, Casale et al. 2013, Di Russo et al. 2014, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Orthoptera / Family: Rhaphidophoridae
• Duvalius ionicus Casale, Giachino & Vailati, 2013, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Hlaváč et al. 2017, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Duvalius ruffoanus Casale, Giachino, Vailati & M. Rampini, 1993, Casale et al. 1993, Casale et al. 1996, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Hlaváč et al. 2017, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Epiroella acharnanis Giachino, Vailati & Casale, 2013, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Fresneda et al. 2024, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
• Histopona thaleri Gasparo, 2005, Gasparo 2005a, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Mammola et al. 2017
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Agelenidae
• Ioniorhynchus gasparoi (Osella & Zuppa, 2006), Osella & Zuppa 2006, Casale et al. 2013, Magnano & Alonso-Zarazaga 2013, Beron 2016, Hlaváč & Skuhrovec 2016, Morrone & Hlaváč 2017
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Curculionidae
• Laemostenus giachinoi Casale, 1997, Casale 1997, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Roncus giachinoi Mahnert & Gardini, 2014, Casale 1997, Casale et al. 2013, Mahnert & Gardini 2014, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Pseudoscorpionida / Family: Neobisiidae
• Roncus sp., Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Pseudoscorpionida / Family: Neobisiidae
• Serecopterus vailatii (Casale & Giachino, 2013), Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Soldanellonyx chappuisi Walter, 1917, Bartsch 2011, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Trombidiformes / Family: Halacaridae
• Tegenaria sp., Gasparo 2005a, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Agelenidae
• Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852), Gasparo 2005a, Casale et al. 2013, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Linyphiidae

Species references

• Allegrucci, G., Trucchi, E. & Sbordoni, V. 2011. Tempo and mode of species diversification in Dolichopoda cave crickets (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 60 (1): 108-121.
• Bartsch, I. 2011. The freshwater halacarid mite Soldanellonyx chappuisi Walter, 1917 (Acari: Halacaridae), character development from larva to adult and comparison with other halacarids.. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 15(184): 223-235.
• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Casale, A. 1997. Sphordina nuovi o poco noti di Grecia e del vicino oriente (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Fragm. Entomol., 29 (2): 267-285.
• Casale, A., Giachino, P. M., Vailati, D. & Rampini, M. 1993. Il genere Duvalius in Grecia: stato attuale delle conoscenze, interesse biogeografico e descrizione di una nuova specie (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae). Boll. Mus. civ. St. nat. Verona, 20 (1): 303-335.
• Casale, A., Giachino, P. M., Vailati, D. & Vigna Taglianti, A. 1996. Specie nuove o poco note del genere Duvalius in Grecia (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Fragm. Entomol., 27 (2): 289-346.
• Casale, A., Giachino, P. M. & Vailati, D. 2013. Tre nuove specie di Coleotteri sotterranei di Grecia (Coleoptera: Carabidae e Cholevidae). Boll. Soc. Entom. It., 145 (1): 9-25.
• Di Russo, C., Rampini, M. & Cobolli, M. 2014. The cave crickets of Greece: a contribution to the study of Southern Balkan Rhaphidophoridae diversity (Orthoptera), with the description of a new species of Troglophilus Krauss , 1879. Biodiversity Journal, 5 (3): 397-420.
• Fresneda J, Giachino P M, Salgado J M, Faille A, Bourdeau C, Cieslak A e Ribera I. 2024. A phylogenetic classification of Leptodirini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, 101(1): 3–936. doi: 10.4081/memoriesei.2024.3.
• Gasparo, F. 2005. Note sulle Histopona Thorell, 1869, del gruppo Myops di Grecia, con descrizione di una nuova specie cavernicola (Araneae, Agelenidae). Atti Memorie Commissione Grotte "E. Boegan", 40: 17-35.
• Giachino PM, Allegro G & Vailati D 2024. The blind Pterostichini of south-eastern Europe and Anatolia. Synopsis of the Speluncarius+Tapinopterus complex with emphasis on Greek taxa (Coleoptera Carabidae Pterostichini).. World Biodiversity Association, Verona. Vol. 6: 400
• Giachino, P. M. & Vailati, D. 1993. Revisione degli Anemadinae Hatch, 1928 (Coleoptera Cholevidae). Mus. Civ. di Storia naturale di Brescia, Mon. di «Natura Bresciana», 18: 1-313.
• Hlaváč, P. & Skuhrovec, J. 2016. Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XV. A new species of the genus Ioniorhynchus Magrini, Meoli & Abbazzi, 2005 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from Greece. Zootaxa, 4092 (1): 129-138.
• Hlaváč, P., Perreau, M. & Čeplík D. 2017. The Subterranean Beetles of the Balkan Peninsula: Carabidae, Leiodidae, Staphylinidae, Scarabaeidae, Bothrideridae, Zopheridae, Salpingidae, Brachyceridae, Curculionidae.. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Praha, Chez Republic. 267 pp.
• Magnano, L. & Alonso-Zarazaga, M.Á. 2013. Otiorhynchini.. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Curculionoidea II. Brill, Leiden, pp. 302–347.
• Mahnert, V. & Gardini, G. 2014. Cave-inhabiting pseudoscorpion species of the genus Roncus (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae) from western Greece, including the Ionian Islands. Arachnol. Mitt., 48: 28-37.
• Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M. 2017. A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research:1–16
• Morrone J. & Hlaváč P. 2017. Checklist of the micro- and anophthalmic soil-dwelling weevils of the world (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).. Zootaxa, 4239:1–102.
• Osella, G. & Zuppa, A. M. 2006. Otiorhynchus (Podonebistus) gasparoi sp. n., un Curculionide anoftalmo della Grecia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Otiorhynchini). Rev. suisse Zool., 113 (1): 67-75.
• Rampini, M., Di Russo, C., Pavesi, F. & Cobolli, M. 2008. The genus Dolichopoda in Greece. A description of new species from the Ionian Regions and Peloponnisos (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae). Zootaxa, 17 (1923): 1-17.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Megalo Spilaio, Monastiraki, Aktio - Vonitsa, Dytiki Ellada. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 17.09.2024, Accessed 18.04.2026