Spilaio Epta Parthenon

Higher Geography
Region: Notio Aigaio,
Sub-Region: Kalymnos,
Municipality: Kalymnos,
Closest Settlement: Pothia
Cave type
Natural
Fauna
  • Cordioniscus kalimnosi Andreev, 1997, Andreev 1997, Andreev & Bozarova 2000, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Malacostraca / Order: Isopoda / Family: Styloniscidae
  • Dolichopoda calidnae Rampini & Di Russo, 2012, Rampini et al. 2012, Di Russo et al. 2014, Beron 2016, Taylan & Şirin 2016, Allegrucci et al. 2021
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Orthoptera / Family: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Laemostenus beroni Casale, 1988, Casale 1988, Casale 1997, Beron 2016
    Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
  • Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1819), Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774), Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Plecotus kolombatovici Dulic, 1980, Benda et al. 2019, Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Tadarida teniotis (Rafinesque, 1814), Georgiakakis et al. 2023
    Phylum: Chordata / Class: Mammalia / Order: Chiroptera / Family: Molossidae
Cave references
  • Kountouris, Th. 1952. Caves of Kalymnos. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 1:294–297.
  • Petrocheilou, A. 1984. The Greek Caves. Ekdotiki Athinon 160pp.
  • Petrocheilou, A., Panagiotidis G. 1980. Speleological researches at Kalymnos, Dodekanisa. Bull. Soc. Speleol. Grèce 17:182–193.
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
  • Andreev, S. & Bozarova, F. 2000. Type material of Isopoda (Crustacea: Oniscidea, Anthuridea) from the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. Hist. Nat. Bulg., 12: 25-32.
  • Andreev, S. 1997. Contribution to the study of terrestrial isopods of Greece. 6. Cordioniscus kalimnosi n. sp., (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Styloniscidae). Hist. Nat. Bulg., 7: 13-16.
  • 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.
  • Casale, A. 1988. Revisione degli Sphodrina (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphordini). Monographia V. Boll. Mus. reg. Sci. Nat. Torino. pp. 1012.
  • Casale, A. 1997. Sphordina nuovi o poco noti di Grecia e del vicino oriente (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Fragm. Entomol., 29 (2): 267-285.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Rampini, M., Di Russo, C., Taylan, M. S., Gelosa, A. & Cobolli, M. 2012. Four new species of Dolichopoda Bolivar, 1880 from Southern Sporades and Western Turkey (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, Dolichopodainae). ZooKeys, 201: 43-58.
  • Taylan M.S., Şirin D. 2016. Speciation of the genus Dolicophoda in Anatolia with reference to the role of ancient central lake system. Insect Systematics and Evolution, 47(3): 267-283
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Epta Parthenon, Pothia, Kalymnos, Notio Aigaio. 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 09.03.2026