Spilaio Ntaveli

Higher Geography

Region: Attiki,
Sub-Region: Voreios Tomeas Attikis,
Municipality: Penteli,
Closest Settlement: Nea Penteli

Cave Synonyms

Höhle 320, Ekklesia Spilja, Daveli cave, "Spilia Paveli", Spilaio Amomon

Cave type

Natural

Protection status

• Archaeological Site - Ministerial Decisions: 25666/984/30-5-1957 (OGG 184/Β/8-7-1957), 25666/984/30-5-1957 (OGG 265/Β/1-10-1957), 42113/2025/19-10-1990 (OGG 673/Β/23-10-1990, OGG 810/Β/28-12-1990, OGG 78/Β/21-2-1991)

Fauna

• Blaps mucronata Latreille, 1804, Lindberg 1955d, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Tenebrionidae
• Bryocamptus pygmaeus (G.O. Sars, 1863), Chappuis 1929, Wolf 1937b, Wolf 1938, Lindberg 1953a, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Hexanauplia / Order: Harpacticoida / Family: Canthocamptidae
• Candona spelaea Klie, 1941, Klie 1941, Danielopol 1978, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Ostracoda / Order: Podocopida / Family: Candonidae
• Choleva sp., Giachino & Lana 2005, Pretner 2011
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
• Cryptophagus sp., Coiffait 1955, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Cryptophagidae
• Diplocephalus turcicus Brignoli, 1972, Brignoli 1974c, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Linyphiidae
• Dolichopoda petrochilosi Chopard, 1954, Chopard 1955, Lindberg 1955d, Boudou-Saltet & Capolongo 1975, Boudou-Saltet 1980, Willemse 1984, Allegrucci et al. 2011, Di Russo et al. 2014, Allegrucci et al. 2021
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Orthoptera / Family: Rhaphidophoridae
• Euscorpius sp., Roewer 1943, Lindberg 1955d, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Scorpiones / Family: Euscorpiidae
• Graeconiscus strinatii (Vandel, 1955), Vandel 1955, Schmalfuss 1979, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Trichoniscidae
• Limonia nubeculosa Meigen, 1804, Lindberg 1955d, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Diptera / Family: Limoniidae
• Nargus sp., Giachino & Lana 2005
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
• Polydesmus graecus Daday, 1889, Strasser 1974, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Polydesmida / Family: Polydesmidae
• Rhinolophus hipposideros (André, 1797), Strinati 1955, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
  Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Rhinolophidae
• Segestria florentina (Rossi, 1790), Roewer 1928, Drensky 1936, Wolf 1937b, Wolf 1938, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Segestriidae
• Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872, Roewer 1959, Brignoli 1979b, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Agelenidae
• Trechus subnotatus Dejean, 1831, Coiffait 1955, Lindberg 1955d, Giachino & Lana 2005, Pretner 2011, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Vitrea schuetti L. Pintér, 1972, Pinter 1972, Riedel 1992, Beron 2016, Karakasi et al. 2024
  Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Pristilomatidae

Cave references

• Anonymous. 1935. Speleological news. To Vouno Greek Mountaineering Club. 2:105-108.
• Lindberg ,K. 1955. Notes sur le grottes de la Grèce. Acta Mus. Macedonici Sci. Nat. 3(2):41-69.

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.
• 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
• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
• Boudou-Saltet, P. & Capolongo, D. 1975. Le spermatophore chez quelques espèces de Dolichopoda (Orth. Rhaph) de Grèce et d΄ Italie. Biol. gallo-hellen., 6 (1): 3-8.
• Boudou-Saltet, P. 1980. Les Dolichopodes (Orth. Rhaph.) de Grèce IX. Une espèce nouvelle en Eubée: Dolichopoda makrykapa. Biol. gallo-hellen., 9 (1): 123-134.
• Brignoli, P. M. 1974. Ragni di Grecia VI. Specie nuove o interessanti dele isole Ionie a della Morea. Rev. suisse Zool., 81 (1): 155-175.
• Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Rev. suisse Zool., 86 (1): 181-202.
• Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Considérations zoogéographiques sur les Araignées cavernicoles de Grèce. Biol. gallo-hellen., 8: 223-236.
• Chappuis, P. A. 1929. Notes sur les Copépodes. 1. Une nouvelle Attheyella du Japon. 2. Moraria poppei Mrazek et Moraria brevipes Sars. 3. Copépodes de Grèce. Bull. Soc. Sci. Cluj, 4 (2): 97-106.
• Chopard, L. 1955. Les Dolichopodes de Grèce. Notes biospeol., 10: 31-34.
• Coiffait, H. 1955. Sur quelques Coléoptères cavernicoles de Grèce. Notes Biospeol., 10 (2): 205-209.
• Danielopol, L. 1978. Über Herkunft und Morphologie der Süßwasser-hypogäischen Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 187: 1-62.
• 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.
• Drensky, P. 1936. Katalog der echten Spinnen (Araneae) der Balkanhalbinsel. Ann. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 32: 1-223.
• Georgiakakis P, Kafkaletou Diez A, Salvarina I, Benda P, Billington G, Dietz C, Billington J, Cove D, Davison S, Cooke M, Papadatou E. 2023. The Bats of Greece: An Updated Review of Their Distribution, Ecology and Conservation. Animals. 2023; 13(15):2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13152529
• Giachino, P. M. & Lana, E. 2005. Diaries of a biospeleologist at the beginning of the XX century. Fragm. Entomol., 37 (2): 1-264.
• Karakasi D, Paragamian K, Mylonas M, Vardinoyannis K 2024. What`s crawling in the dark? An annotated list of gastropods in Greek caves.. Subterranean Biology 48: 73-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.48.113383
• Klie, W. 1941. Suesswasserostracoden aus Südosteuropa. Zool. Anz., 133 (11-12): 233-244.
• Lindberg, K. 1953. Cyclopides (Crustacés Copépodes) de la Grèce. Prak. hellen. hydrobiol. Inst., 6 (2): 19-40.
• Lindberg, K. 1955. Notes sur le grottes de la Grèce. Acta Mus. Maced. Sci. Natur. Skopje 3: 41–69
• Pinter, L. 1972. Die Gattung Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 in dem Balkanländern (Gastropoda Zonitidae). Ann. Zool. (Wars.), 29 (8): 209-315.
• Pretner, E. 2011. Die Verdienste von Leo Weirather um die Biospeläologie, insbesondere Jugoslawiens, sein Höhlenkataster und seine Sammelplätze. Ber. nat.-med. Ver. Innsbruck, 97: 85-234.
• Riedel, A. 1992. The Zonitidae (sensu lato) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) of Greece. Fauna Graeciae V. Hellenic Zoological Society. pp. 194.
• Roewer, C. F. 1928. XI. Araneae. Zoologische Streifzüge in Attika, Morea und besonders auf der Insel Kreta II. Publisher, Bremen. pp. 92-124.
• Roewer, C. F. 1943. Über eine neuerworbene Sammlung von Skorpionen des Natur - Museums Senckenberg. Senckenbergiana, 26 (4): 205-244.
• Roewer, C. F. 1959. Die Araneae, Solifuga und Opiliones der Sammlungen des Herrn Dr. K. Lindberg aus Griechenland, Creta, Anatolien, Iran und Indien. Göteborgs kungl. vet. vitterh. Samh. Handl., 8 (4): 3-47.
• Schmalfuss, H. 1979. Revidierte Check-List der Landisopoden (Oniscoidea) Griechenlands. Stuttgart. Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A. (Biol.), 331: 1-42.
• Strasser, K. 1974. Über Diplopoda-Chilognatha Griechenlands. Rev. suisse Zool., 81 (1): 219-300.
• Strinati, P. 1955. Recherches biospeologiques en Attique. Stalactite, 5: 7-9.
• Vandel, A. 1955. Isopodes terrestres récoltés dans les grottes de l΄ Attique par M. Pierre Strinati. Notes biospeol., 10 (1): 51-61.
• Willemse, F. 1984. Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I. Hellenic Zoological Society. pp. 275.
• Wolf, B. 1937. Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus. II. - Cavernarum Catalogus. Junk Verl., Wien (1934-1937). pp. 616.
• Wolf, B. 1938. Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus. III. - Animalium Catalogus. Junk Verl., Wien (1934-1938). pp. 918.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Ntaveli, Nea Penteli, Penteli, Attiki. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 06.08.2023, Accessed 31.01.2026