Spilaio Idaio Antro

Higher Geography
Region: Kriti,
Sub-Region: Rethymno,
Municipality: Anogeia,
Closest Settlement: Anogeia
Cave Synonyms
Höhle 316, Spiliara tis voskopoulas, Zeus-Höhle
Cave type
Natural
Protection status
  • Archaeological Site - Ministerial Decisions 16307/9-9-1965 (OGG 605/Β/16-9-1965), 9597/12-9-1970 (OGG 666/Β/23-9-1970), 63143/2410/14-12-1984 (OGG 54/Β/31-1-1985)
  • GR4330005 - Oros Idi (Vorizia, Geranoi, Kali Madara) (Special Area of Conservation): Law 3937/2011 (OGG/Α 60/31.03.2011), Joint Ministerial Decision 50743/2017 (OGG 4432/B/15.12.17). Check site’s Standard Data Form
  • GR4330009 - Oros Psiloreitis (notiodytiko Tmima) (Special Protection Area): Law 3937/2011 (OGG/Α 60/31.03.2011), Joint Ministerial Decision 50743/2017 (OGG 4432/B/15.12.17). Check site’s Standard Data Form
  • Landscape of Outstanding Natural Beauty - Ministerial Decision 36852/2942/12-10-1973 (OGG 1242/Β/16-10-1973)
Fauna
  • Amaurobius candia Thaler & Knoflach, 2002, Thaler & Knoflach 2002
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Amaurobiidae
  • Anatella ankeli Plassmann, 1977, Chandler et al. 2005
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Diptera / Family: Mycetophilidae
  • Batrisodes paganettii W. Blattny & C. Blattny, 1916, Besuchet 1981
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Staphylinidae
  • Catops creticus Jeannel, 1936, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
  • Catops sp., Giachino & Lana 2005, Pretner 2011
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
  • Dendrobaena alpina (Rosa, 1884), Černosvitov 1938b, Černosvitov 1939, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Annelida / Class: Clitellata / Order: Crassiclitellata / Family: Lumbricidae
  • Eopolita protensa (A. Férussac, 1832), Riedel 1968
    Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Oxychilidae
  • Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774), Benda et al. 2009, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Exechiopsis vizzavonensis (Edwards, 1928), Chandler et al. 2005
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Diptera / Family: Mycetophilidae
  • Harpalus sulphuripes Germar, 1824, Wrase 2009
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
  • Henlea nasuta (Eisen, 1878), Černosvitov 1938b, Černosvitov 1939, Michalis 1982, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Annelida / Class: Clitellata / Order: Enchytraeida / Family: Enchytraeidae
  • Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837), Benda et al. 2009, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Lepthyphantes sp., Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Araneae / Family: Linyphiidae
  • Limonia enormis Starý, 2017, Starý 2017
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Diptera / Family: Limoniidae
  • Neobisium hellenum (Simon, 1885), Mahnert 1979, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Pseudoscorpionida / Family: Neobisiidae
  • Oxychilus superfluus (L. Pfeiffer, 1849), Riedel 1968, Karakasi et al. 2024
    Phylum: Mollusca / Class: Gastropoda / Order: Stylommatophora / Family: Oxychilidae
  • Plecotus kolombatovici Dulic, 1980, Benda et al. 2009, Benda et al. 2019, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Plecotus macrobullaris Kuzjakin, 1965, Benda et al. 2009, Benda et al. 2019, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Plusiocampa rhea Sendra, 2020, Sendra et al. 2020a
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Entognatha / Order: Diplura / Family: Campodeidae
  • Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus, 1758), Beron 2016
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Aves / Order: Passeriformes / Family: Corvidae
  • Stenus sp., Giachino & Lana 2005
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Staphylinidae
  • Tapinopterus stepaneki Maran, 1934, Mařan 1934, Gueorguiev & Guéorguiev 1999, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
  • Temnothorax kraussei (Emery, 1915), Buschinger 1989, Buschinger 1989, Salata et al. 2018, Salata et al. 2018
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Hymenoptera / Family: Formicidae
  • Temnothorax recedens (Nylander, 1856), Buschinger 1989, Buschinger 1989, Salata et al. 2018, Salata et al. 2018
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Hymenoptera / Family: Formicidae
  • Winklerites sp., Vigna Taglianti 1980, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
Cave references
  • Petrocheilou, A. 1984. The Greek Caves. Ekdotiki Athinon 160pp.
Species references
  • Benda, P., Georgiakakis, P., Dietz, C., Hanak, V., Galanaki, K., Markantonatou, V., Chudarkova, A., Hulva, P. & Horacek, I. 2009. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 7. The bat fauna of Crete, Greece. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 72 (3-4): 105-190.
  • Benda, P., Ševčík, M., Bego, F., Sachanowicz, K., Spitzenberger, F., Tájek, P., Tájková, P., Uhrin, M. 2019. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 15. The fauna of bats and bat ectoparasites of Albania with a catalogue of bats from the western Balkans in the collection of the National Museum, Prague. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 83: 1–238
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Besuchet, C. 1981. Contribution à l΄ étude des Batrisodes paléarctiques (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Rev. suisse Zool., 88 (1): 275-296.
  • Buschinger A. 1989. Workerless Epimyrma Kraussei Emery 1915, the First Parasitic Ant of Crete. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 96(1-2): 69–74
  • Černosvitov, L. 1938. Note sur les Oligochètes cavernicoles. Mem. Soc. Zool. Tchecosl., 5: 125-133.
  • Černosvitov, L. 1939. Etudes biospéologiques. X. Catalogue des Oligochètes hypogés.. Mus. Roy. Hist, nat. de Belgique 15(22): 1-92
  • Chandler, P.J., Bechev, D.N. & Caspers, N. 2005. The Fungus Gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae) of Greece, its islands and Cyprus. Studia Dipterologica, 12(2): 255–314
  • 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.
  • Gueorguiev, V. B. & Guéorguiev, B. 1999. Notes on the genus Tapinopterus Schaum, 1858 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini) 1. Tapinopterus (Tapinopterus) marani sp. n. - a new polymorphic ground-beetle from the islands of Crete and Naxos. Elytron (Barcelona), 12: 39-48.
  • 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
  • Mahnert, V. 1979. Pseudoskorpione (Arachnida) aus Höhlen Griechenlands, insbesondere Kretas. Arch. Sci. Genève, 32 (3): 213-233.
  • Mařan, J. 1934. Nové druhy a formy Carabidů z ostrova Kréty. De novis carabidarum speciebus formis-que ex insula Creta. Sbornik entom. odd. N. musea v. Praze, 12 (98): 125-128.
  • Michalis, K. 1982. Katalog der Oligochaetenfauna Griechenlands. Biol. gallo-hellen., 9 (2): 343-362.
  • 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. 1968. Zonitidae (Gastropoda) Kretas. Ann. Zool. (Wars.), 25: 473-537.
  • Salata S, Borowiec L, Trichas A. 2018. Taxonomic Revision of the Cretan Fauna of the Genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with Notes on the Endemism of Ant Fauna of Crete. Annales Zoologici, 68(4): 769–808.
  • Sendra A., Antić D., Barranco P., Borko Š., Christian E., Delić T., Fadrique F., Faille A., Galli L., Gasparo F., Georgiev D., Giachino P.M., Kováč L., Lukić M., Marcia P., Miculinić K., Nicolosi G., Palero F., Paragamian K., Pérez T., Polak S., Prieto C. 2020. Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 591: 1–138. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.591
  • Starý J. 2017. Four new species of Limonia from the Mediterranean (Diptera: Limoniidae). Acta enomologica musei nationalis Pragae 57(2):713–721. https://doi.org/10.1515/aemnp-2017-0096
  • Thaler K. & Knoflach B. 2002. A superspecies in the genus Amaurobius on Crete, and additional records from Greece (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). In: Toft, S. & N. Scharff (eds.) European Arachnology 2000: Proceedings of the 19th European Colloquium of Arachnology. Aarhus University Press, pp. 337-344
  • Vigna Taglianti, A. 1980. Nouvelles données sur la systématique et la répartition géographique des Coléoptères Carabiques cavernicoles et endogés du Proche-Orient (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Mem. Biospeol., 7: 163-172.
  • Wrase, D. W. 2009. New or interesting records of Carabid beetles from Europe, Madeira, northern Africa, Turkey, from the Near East, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Pakistan, with nomenclatorial and taxonomic notes (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiini, Brachinini, Cyclosomini, Elaphri. Linzer biol. Beitr., 41(1): 901-935.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Idaio Antro, Anogeia, Anogeia, Kriti. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 15.12.2023, Accessed 29.04.2026