Spilaio Skreti

Higher Geography

Region: Peloponnisos,
Sub-Region: Lakonia,
Municipality: Sparti,
Closest Settlement: Kastoreio

Cave type

Natural

Fauna

• Dolichopoda unicolor Chopard, 1964, Di Russo et al. 2019, Allegrucci et al. 2021
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Orthoptera / Family: Rhaphidophoridae
• Stygopholcus photophilus Senglet, 1971, Huber et al. 2021
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Pholcidae

Species references

• Allegrucci G, Rampini M, Chimenti C, Alexiou S & Di Russo C. 2021. Dolichopoda cave crickets from Peloponnese (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae): molecular and morphological investigations reveal four new species for Greece. The European Zoological Journal, 88(1): 505-524, DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2021.1902005
• Di Russo, C., Kofinas-Kallergis, G., Alexiou, S. & Rampini, M. 2019. New records of Dolichopoda (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from Peloponnisos, Greece. Parnassiana Archives, 4: 55-63
• Huber B. A., Pavlek M., & Komnenov M. 2021. Revision of the spider genus Stygopholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae), endemic to the Balkan Peninsula. European Journal of Taxonomy, 752(1), 1–60. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.752.1391

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Skreti, Kastoreio, Sparti, Peloponnisos. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 14.01.2020, Accessed 18.04.2026