Spilaio Drakotrypia

Higher Geography

Region: Peloponnisos,
Sub-Region: Arkadia,
Municipality: Gortynia,
Closest Settlement: Vytina

Cave Synonyms

Drakotripa, Spilaio Reas, Höhle 325, Draco Spilia, Drakospilia

Cave type

Natural

Description / Comments

A very small cave (Giachino & Lana 2005, Pretner 2011)

Protection status

• GR2520001 - Oros Mainalo (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

Fauna

• Catops fuscus (Panzer, 1794), Henrot 1967, Giachino & Lana 2005, Pretner 2011
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
• Choleva sp., Giachino & Lana 2005, Pretner 2011
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Leiodidae
• Dolichopoda sp., Di Russo et al. 2014, Di Russo et al. 2019
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Orthoptera / Family: Rhaphidophoridae
• Duvalius wichmanni Jeannel, 1929, Jeannel 1929, Scheibel 1937, Wolf 1937b, Wolf 1938, Casale 1979, Sciaky 1992, Casale et al. 1993, Pretner 2011, Hlaváč et al. 2017, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Elasmopterus keithjarretti Giachino, Allegro & Vailati, 2024, Giachino et al. 2024, Giachino et al. 2024
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Coleoptera / Family: Carabidae
• Eupolybothrus transsylvanicus (Latzel,1882), Zapparoli 1984, Zapparoli 2002, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Chilopoda / Order: Lithobiomorpha / Family: Lithobiidae
• Exechia fulva Santos Abreu, 1920, Chandler et al. 2005
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Diptera / Family: Mycetophilidae
• Mediostoma vitynae (Roewer, 1927), Roewer 1927, Roewer 1951, Schönhofer et al. 2013, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Opiliones / Family: Nemastomatidae
• Neobisium casalei Gardini, 1985, Gardini 1985, Harvey 1991, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Arachnida / Order: Pseudoscorpionida / Family: Neobisiidae
• Prionoglaris dactyloides Lienhard, 1988, Lienhard 1988b, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Psocoptera / Family: Prionoglarididae
• Rymosia affinis Winnertz, 1863, Chandler et al. 2005
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Order: Diptera / Family: Mycetophilidae
• Serradium spiliarum Strasser, 1974, Strasser 1974, Enghoff et al. 2001, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Polydesmida / Family: Polydesmidae
• Typhloiulus sp., Strasser 1974, Beron 2016
  Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Diplopoda / Order: Julida / Family: Julidae

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Casale, A. 1979. Note su alcuni Duvalius del Peloponneso, con descrizione di una nuova specie (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Subf. Trechinae). Ent. basil., 4: 173-186.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Enghoff, H., Caoduro, G., Adis, J. & Messner, B. 2001. A new cavernicolous, semiaquatic species of Serradium (Diplopoda, Polydesmidae) and its terrestrial, sympatric congener. With notes on the genus Serradium. Zoologica Scripta, 26 (3): 279-290.
• Gardini, G. 1985. Su alcuni Pseudoscorpioni cavernicoli di Grecia (Pseudoscorpionida, Neobisidae). Boll. Mus. reg. Sci. nat. Torino, 3 (1): 53-64.
• 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. & Lana, E. 2005. Diaries of a biospeleologist at the beginning of the XX century. Fragm. Entomol., 37 (2): 1-264.
• Harvey, M.S. 1991. Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida.. Manchester University Press, 726 pp.
• Henrot, H. 1967. Note sur les Catopidae du Péloponnèse et description d’un Choleva (Cholevopsis) nouveau (Col. Catopidae). Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr., 72: 61-66.
• 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.
• Jeannel, R. 1929. Le sillon transegéen et description de Coléoptères cavernicoles nouveaux de la Grèce. Bull. Soc. Sci. Cluj, 2 (4): 59-84.
• Lienhard, C. 1988. Vorarbeiten zu einer Psocopteren-Fauna der Westpaläarktis : IV. die Gattung Prionoglaris Enderlein (Psocoptera : Prionoglarididae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entom. Ges. 61: 89-108
• 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.
• Roewer, C. F. 1927. Zoologische Streifzüge in Attika, Morea und besonders auf der Insel Kreta. I. Abh. Natwiss. Ver. Brem., 26 (3): 425-460.
• Roewer, C. F. 1951. Uber Nemastomatiden. Weitere Weberknechte XVI.. Senckenbergiana 32(1/4):95–153
• Scheibel, O. 1937. Neue Trechini aus Griechenland und Albanien. Ent. Bl., 33 (4): 273-283.
• Schönhofer, A. L., Karaman, I. M. & Martens, J. 2013. Revision of the genus Trogulus Latreille: The morphologically divergent Trogulus torosus species-group of the Balkan Peninsula (Opiliones: Dyspnoi: Trogulidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 167 (3): 360-388.
• Sciaky R. 1992. Note su Carabidae cavernicoli ed endogei di Grecia, con descrizione di Duvalius casalei n. sp. (Carabidae, Coleoptera).. Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10:295–305.
• Strasser, K. 1974. Über Diplopoda-Chilognatha Griechenlands. Rev. suisse Zool., 81 (1): 219-300.
• 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.
• Zapparoli, M. 1984. Note su alcune specie del gen. Eupolybothrus della fauna di Grecia (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Fragm. Entomol., 17 (2): 195-209.
• Zapparoli, M. 2002. A catalogue of the centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragm. Entomol., 34 (1): 1-146.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Fauna of the cave Spilaio Drakotrypia, Vytina, Gortynia, Peloponnisos. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Cave data updated 18.09.2024, Accessed 07.03.2026